THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO

AENG 268: Surveying for Architects

Department of Construction and Architectural Engineering

Homework #2
MAP SCALE
1) Present the following scales in two different ways:
Km

1/5000

100

5mm = 10 000 m

Meters

10ft = 1 Miles 125

- 0

250

2) What is the best type of scales to draw on a map? Why?

3) If the neat line of a map is 100 * 70 cm. What are the real dimensions of a map with
scale 1:200.
4) Suggest the scale in the RF form that you will use for the following:
1: 1951.13
1cm = 4994.3 m 1cm = 5 cm
- 4mm = 800 cm
5) What is the process required to convert a map 1:500 to 1:100 and 1:100 to 1:10000
6) What is the map accuracy (smallest real length that you can measure on a map) for the
following scales:
1:25000 - 1:100 - 1: 400 - 1:5000
7) An architecture requests three maps with different scales to see the real details
4mm - 2 cm - 15 cm. What are the three map scales must be requested?
8) A cartographer used a map with scale 1:50000 to work with parcels (buildings) in a city.
What is your opinion? And what is your advice for him about the suitable map scale?
9) An engineer has map with scale 1:1000. He photocopied the map to enlarge it and to
produce a map with scale 1:100. What is the scale converting factor used?
Can you use the final map produced for working with scale 1:100? Why?
10) What is the area covered by a map 100 cm * 80 cm with a scale 1:250. What will be the
scale and the area covered if you reduce the map scale four times.
Could you find a relation between scale factor and area factor during enlarge/reduce
scale?
11) Design a map layout on A0 paper size for mapping an area of 1200 * 3000 m. Compute
the map scale. Draw a sketch for the layout map.

THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO

AENG 268: Surveying for Architects

Department of Construction and Architectural Engineering

12) In an urban organization they asked you to recommend a map scale for the different
following projects:
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A study for the whole country

A landscape project of a new urban complex
The relation between three governorates
An urban planning of Alexandria city
An architects design of a new hospital in New Cairo

13) A customer provides you, as an architect, the following map for his parcel boundary. He
asked you to redraw manually the boundary with a scale of 1: 1000 and computing the
area of the parcels on Feddan.

Road 10m width

Best Wishes..
Dr . Tarek Abou El Seoud