zoom-map-scale Command

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Sets the map zoom level based on the map scale ratio.

Usage

zoom-map-scale <scale>

Parameters:

Map Scales And Display Size

The map scale depends on the actual physical size of pixels on your display device (monitor). Maperitive uses pixels-per-inch (PPI) units to represent the size of pixels. You can adjust the PPI by setting the display.ppi setting to the appropriate value.

PPI calculator: http://members.ping.de/~sven/dpi.html.

Examples

 zoom-map-scale 50000

Sets the zoom level equivalent to map scale 1 : 50,000

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