Original Message -----From: Anne FosterSent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 8:06 PMOur museum includes 12 historic buildings on more than 10 acres. We desperately need an interpretive map--a map of the grounds with some very brief descriptive content. I would like to provide our mapmaker with some examples of this type of map (he's not a museum person and is having trouble visualizing something not necessarily to scale
If I could be so bold to ask, What is his profession? I can't imangine anyone not having a clue how to do this. Write to your state tourism office, there are lots of brochures for historic districts out there that have "Not To Scale Maps" Many architects do their site plans that way - draw to scale then cho and reduce. I can't think of any on the web - NPS site is down, they have some good ones of battlefields. If nothing else, tell him to use cut out the Distance between buildings and add a note that tells the distance. OR he could reduce it.
Good Luck
Sharon Buford,
BS Architectural Studies
Grad Student - UK Historic Preservation