Definition of Scale Rank & appropriate attribute for size-based styling

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  • September 5, 2012 at 11:41 pm #4421

    Nathaniel
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    They largely follow the Google zooms you are describing, with one notable exception:

    Natural Earth scale rank 4 is roughly 1:50,000,000 scale (NEW, only in Natural Earth). And then it picks back up normally with scale rank 5 is 1:36,000,000, etc.

    http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=2407

    Nothing is perfect, but this mostly works between all themes.

    This is because while the 2^x power schema is useful, it doesn’t hold up well at that one particular scale, a typical scale used in much small and medium scale maps.

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