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    Quote Originally Posted by nlowell View Post
    Good point. I shifted to Mercator.
    Normal Mercator isn't really the best projection for a continental scale map like this, unless you need to preserve bearings (say for a marine chart intended for dead reckoning, in which case you you'd probably have rhumb lines rather than a graticule)

    Quote Originally Posted by nlowell View Post
    Had a bit of fun adding the Mercator projection to the original so I knew where 90E and 45N fell in this map, then did my best on scaling. The miles scale is set to 45N but I'm not expert enough to figure out how that should be noted.
    It's not really appropriate to have an indicated scale when the actual scale varies so much. If you keep it I'd put a note under it along the lines of: Scale true at 45° N.

    Given the name and appearance, I'd thought it was a much smaller feature; a small sea rather than a small ocean. If you can make it smaller, the scale issue would go away.
    Last edited by Hai-Etlik; 11-25-2011 at 07:32 PM.

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