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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Scale is a ratio, for example:   1 inch =
24000 inches   -or-   1/24000   -or-  1 ft. = 24000 feet<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Here are some helpful links:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><a
href="http://trac.osgeo.org/openlayers/wiki/SettingZoomLevels">http://trac.osgeo.org/openlayers/wiki/SettingZoomLevels</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><a
href="https://getsatisfaction.com/opengeo/topics/how_do_i_interpret_the_openlayers_scale">https://getsatisfaction.com/opengeo/topics/how_do_i_interpret_the_openlayers_scale</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Worth<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
openlayers-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:openlayers-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Rob Hyx<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, March 21, 2013
9:54 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b>
openlayers-users@lists.osgeo.org; users@openlayers.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [OpenLayers-Users]
OpenLayers resolutions and scale questions</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hello all, I have a few questions that I can't seem to get cleared up
in the OpenLayers documentation. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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     mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
     style='font-size:12.0pt'>Someone asked me what is the units of measurement
     that are displayed in the scale control? In other words 1:7M what? Or is
     it unit-less since it's a ratio? Sorry if that's a dumb question. <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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     mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
     style='font-size:12.0pt'>Next, when you manually specify the resolutions
     of the map (i.e. map.resolutions = [...,...,...];), what units are those?
     I checked the map in the DOM inspector and it says the units are
     'degrees', does that mean decimal degrees? <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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     mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
     style='font-size:12.0pt'>Also if this or anything related to scale,
     resolution or Geo-spatial accuracy in general is documented anywhere for
     OpenLayers, can someone point me in that direction?<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thanks in
advance!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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