. Textbook of landscape gardening, designed especially for the use of non-professional students. Landscape gardening. LESSON 5 Scaling Plans HIS lesson is intended to familiarize the pupil with the use of scales in making and reading maps and plans. Definition The relation of a distance on a plan to the distance which it represents on the object is called the scale of the plan. Scales are based on the distance in feet on the object which is represented by one inch on the plan or on the number of inches on the plan which represents one foot on the object. In small scale plans an inch represents
. Textbook of landscape gardening, designed especially for the use of non-professional students. Landscape gardening. LESSON 5 Scaling Plans HIS lesson is intended to familiarize the pupil with the use of scales in making and reading maps and plans. Definition The relation of a distance on a plan to the distance which it represents on the object is called the scale of the plan. Scales are based on the distance in feet on the object which is represented by one inch on the plan or on the number of inches on the plan which represents one foot on the object. In small scale plans an inch represents a considerable distance, often 50, 80, 100 or even several hundred feet. In medium scale plans an inch may represent 10, 20, 30 or 40 feet. In very large scale plans an inph may represent 8 or 4 or 2 or 1 feet or sometimes only a fraction of a foot. Odd scales, such as those in which one inch represents 16 or 16| or 32 feet etc. are remnants of the old Gunter's or surveyors measure and are now little used, the decimal system being much more convenient. Applications Practically all engineers' and landscape gardeners' surveys and plans are made on a scale of one inch representing some multiple of ten feet. The surveys and general plans of large areas are on relatively small scales, the detail plans being usually on a scale of 1" = 20' or 1" = 40'. Occasionally plans are made to a scale of 1" = 10' or 1" = 30', but these scales are not so much used. Architects' plans represent smaller areas and must show more detail than do engineers' plans. They are therefore usually on 21. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Waugh, Frank A. (Frank Albert), 1869-1943. New York, John Wiley & sons, inc. ; [etc. , etc. ]
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