Abstract
THERE ARE MANY BEAUTIFUL maps printed every year, but perhaps the most satisfactory from the mathematical point of view are the quadrangle maps produced by the United States Geological Survey. The Survey has divided the country into a network of quadrangles. The resulting scales, ranging from about one half mile to one mile to the inch, are far larger than those of maps normally found in atlases or maps distributed by gasoline stations. In fact, the scale is so large, that it takes more than two hundred maps to cover a state as small as Maryland.
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Davis, P.J., Chinn, W.G. (1985). Of Maps and Mathematics. In: 3.1416 And All That. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8519-0_22
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