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MR. A. R. HINKS, secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, described at a recent meeting of the society the work which has been carried out, and is still in progress, on a map on the scale 1/1,000,000. It is well known that, before the outbreak of war, conferences of representatives of the principal Powers had met ill London and Paris, and had come to an agreement as to the production of a map on this scale, t6 cover ultimately all lands, on a uniform projection and with uniform methods of representation, etc. A few sheets had been produced in various countries. They were scattered, in some instances imperfect and not available in any quantity, and in any event useless to meet even partially the necessity which was felt, almost at the outset of the war, of a map to cover uniformly Western and Central Europe and Asia Minor and adjacent areas affected by military operations. Even for Europe no such map existed, and it was necessary, in taking a broad view of the operations, or for any such purpose as that which will ultimately become of prime importance, the tracing of boundaries, to pass at certain points from maps of a particular scale and method to others totally different in every respect. People are prone to comment that the scale 1/1,000,000 (nearly, 16 miles = 1 inch) is too small even for such general purposes, but it is not so. It allows the representation of important places, railways, roads and boundaries, rivers, and elevation by means of contour lines, either alcne or in conjunction with layer colours.
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The Royal Geographical Society's Work on the One-Million Map . Nature 95, 594 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095594a0
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