For Nevada, one inch did not correspond to an exact amount of either miles or kilometers, but 50 miles was 14/16ths of an inch (43.75 mpi). For Wyoming, one inch was exactly 80 km, but 40 miles was 13/16ths of an inch (55.38 mpi). For Arizona, an inch represented 50 miles (50 mpi), but for Utah, the mark for 45 miles was somewhere between 14/16ths and 15/16ths of an inch (making the scale upwards of 51.43 mpi). (you get the picture).įor the U.S., each individual state gets one entire page - which is fine, but when we tried to cut and paste the individual states of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and Arizona to make the map we needed, it was a royal pain in the a_ because of the differing scales. (though it has regional maps for the different continents: i.e., in addition to a map of all of South America, there is an enlargement of Colombia, Ecuado and Peru alone, then an enlargement of Brazil and Bolivia alone, etc. This book does not contain regional maps for the U.S. But I do have a major complaint: several times we have tried to put multiple individual maps together to make a custom, regional map, but the tasks were made Herculean by the fact that this book uses no consistent scale for its maps.įor example, when we were studying John Wesley Powell's historic first trip through the Grand Canyon we wanted a map where we could note significant places and events along the Green and Colorado Rivers. We use this book frequently in our homeschool geography studies.
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