{"id":6426,"date":"2021-02-03T22:18:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/kb\/uncategorized\/numerical-scale\/"},"modified":"2021-02-03T22:18:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:18:34","slug":"numerical-scale","status":"publish","type":"knowledgebase","link":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/usemaps-documentation\/definitions\/numerical-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Numerical scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The numerical scale indicates the ratio by which objects on a map are reduced compared to their actual size.<\/p>\n<p>It is presented in the form of a fraction, e.g. 1:500, which means that an object with a length of 1 m on the map corresponds to 500 m in reality.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4524 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/skala_widocznosci-1-1024x513.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/skala_widocznosci-1-1024x513.png 1024w, https:\/\/usemaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/skala_widocznosci-1-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/usemaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/skala_widocznosci-1-768x385.png 768w, https:\/\/usemaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/skala_widocznosci-1-1536x770.png 1536w, https:\/\/usemaps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/skala_widocznosci-1-2048x1027.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The numerical scale indicates the ratio by which objects on a map are reduced compared to their actual size. It is presented in the form of a fraction, e.g. 1:500, which means that an object with a length of 1 m on the map corresponds to 500 m in reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","knowledgebase_cat":[83],"knowledgebase_tag":[],"class_list":["post-6426","knowledgebase","type-knowledgebase","status-publish","hentry","knowledgebase_cat-definitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/6426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knowledgebase"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/6426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_cat?post=6426"},{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_tag?post=6426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}