"Matt Beard" wrote in message
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Chris Nellist wrote:

I am house-hunting in Ireland, and an agent has sent me floor-plans of a
house that looks interesting.

But all the measurements are wrong, in that "1m" seems to represent
a distance of about 2.2 metres.

I asked the agent and he said this was for "reference" only. Which is,
of course, not a proper answer.

My first thought (cynic that I am) was that there'd been some sort of
planning scam. But this doesn't seem to be so, because the overall floor
area appears to be stated accurately. (Obviously being in discrepancy
with
the stated linear measures).

Is some weird unit being used???

If so, I don't know what it might be. A 1/14 of a second of latitude
doesn't sound right. Or maybe measurements are altered by a factor of
sqrt
5 so that rooms appear to have 1/5 of their actual area? But that doesn't
sound right either! I mean, why on earth do it?

So what's the reason for the curious measurements?

I can't quite suss this one out!

Cheers,

Chris


Perhaps they are using a drawing package that does all the measurements
for them, but they did the drawing the wrong size and only noticed part
way through. Then they thought "well, it doesn't need to be exact
because it's only showing layout"


Close! Perhaps it's a drawing that was done to a certain scale and then
reduced to fit a smaller page. The computer generated distances then
adjusted themselves accordingly to the new size. just a thought.......