The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-05-07

size at least, and urged that details be
unified"
Nothing Done BY Congress.
While nothing was done by this
congress, Professor Penck's plea re-
suited In the preparation blythe Unit
ed States OF several maps on the pro-
posed scale. The unit chosen was the
state. and these maps resulted in the
passage Of resolutions at the Ninth
congress of Geographers, held in 1908,
in Geneva, by which conference was
held In London in November, 1909. by
representatives Of the United States,
Austro-Hungary. France, Germany, It.
ally. Spain. Russia and England. ia
pan was invited to join, but sent no
delegates.
AT this conference all difficulties
were swept away" said Mr.. Gaunt.
France agreed to accept Greenwich
as the basis of fixing meridians, and
in return the English and American
delegates accepted the metric sys-
TEN. though permission was granted to
use feet or versts in parentheses after
the official designations. Symbols
were chosen to represent rivers, cities
towns. mountains, ETC., and 1t was de-
cided to use the local spelling Of
names. Rome being called Roma, Vien-
ma Wien, Florence Firenz. etc. Fro
China and other Asiatic countries the
spelling used will be that adopted by
the respective governments. In Aus
tria, where some towns are known by
four or five names at times. choice
was left to the government.
Altitude by coIors.
ION the new map, altitude and depth
of sea will be indicated by colors. SUI
perimposed on contour lines such as
we now use in our government maps,
the colors being shaded one into an
other. Altitude up to three hundred
meters, about nine hundred and eigh-
ty-five feet, will be represented by
deepening shades Of green, as the ell
ovation increases. From green it
shades into buff. and at five hundred
meters becomes brown, growing dark
er to three thousand meters. Alti-
tudes greater than three thousand me-
tiers are shown by violet. shading to
white for mountains higher than seven
thousand meters"
Each OF the sheets will cover four
degrees of latitude and of longitude.
thus requiring sixty to go around the
world. and twenty five to reach from
pole to pole. The sheets will be made
to justify. 80 that they may be fitted
together. and as 1t is an international
boundary work boundaries of coun-
tries will not limit what a sheet will
show.
"The United States will prepare fiji
ty.two of these Sheets" said Mr..
Gaunt. 1.-The survey has nine of these
sheets under way, covering the east
ern central and western states. These
have been prepared on scale Of to
I. OO. 900. eight miles to the inch, and
will be published on scale of 1 to
625. 900. ten miles to the inch. for gen.
eral use. though the million scale will
also be prepared.
The largest maps of the United
States geological survey are on scale
OF one mile to an inch. These show
individual houses. every detail of
roads. elevations, ETC., but the maps
are SO large that they are useless for
travelling by automobile. In this mil
lionth map will be boon to travellers.
The scale will be large enough to show
all the important features of the coun-
| try and being all on the same scale,
and with uniform symbols to represent
physical features, a motorist of one
country may travel easily in another
and Judge distances much better.
But more than all and above all,
the uniform map of the world will
stimulate the study of geography and
will tend to bring the students Of all
countries closer together. giving them
a common meeting ground. and elimi.
mating misunderstanding which some.
times have been at the bottom Of in
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