How big is 40,000 square metres

[Hughesie2]

pstruck said:

Bigger than my garden!

Yet smaller than mine....

[pstruck]

Hughesie2 said:

pstruck said: Bigger than my garden! Yet smaller than mine....

It's quality that counts, not quantity!

[Hughesie2]

pstruck said:

Hughesie2 said: pstruck said: Bigger than my garden! Yet smaller than mine.... It's quality that counts, not quantity!

Hey, the whole world is my back garden, now thats quality

[vlc]

so its 8 acres worth

trouble is i find that size hard to visualise.

in fact, could any here tell of a notable public place thats 40,000 sq mt, or put a link to such a picture, with people walking about it for scale.???


>> Edited by vlc on Thursday 2nd December 19:32

[Pigeon]

It's one twenty-fifth of a grid square on a 1:50000 OS map.

[vlc]

Pigeon said:

It's one twenty-fifth of a grid square on a 1:50000 OS map.

well my atlas has a 1 inch square grid, each 4.9 km across, so hows that fit in?

actully - how big are the 'buckingham palace' grounds -for then i could compare that easily via a street atlas

[srebbe64]

Helpful website?

www.convert-me.com/en/convert/area

[MikeyT]

Haven't got a clue as to how big, but others have sorted that out - but depends if it's in the Scottish highlands or say, just outside the M25 - which if it is, he is a very rich guy!

If it's in the Scot Highlands I'll give him £50 for it

[towman]

Find a nice big patch of open ground that you can drive around.
Put a cone by the back of the car.
Drive forward 1.25 tenths on the odometer.
Put another cone down
Put yourself at 90 dergrees to the second cone.
Repeat the 1.25 tenths bit.
Repeat until you have four corners of the square mapped out

[RichB]

mcecm said:

So you could have a square pitch or do the dimensions have to be to the same ratio?

And... it must not be square, but the ratio can be anything. Rich...

[Pigeon]

vlc said:

Pigeon said: It's one twenty-fifth of a grid square on a 1:50000 OS map. well my atlas has a 1 inch square grid, each 4.9 km across, so hows that fit in?

I can't be arsed to work it out It's also one twenty-fifth of a grid square on a Multimap map at 1:25000. So search for your home town on Multimap, set the scale to 1:25000 and look at it.

[mybrainhurts]

Come on, it's quite simple.

Approx 1sq metre bigger than 39,999

[Pies]

200m x 200m = 40000m2

approx twice the size of an athletics field

[mybrainhurts]

How big is an athletics field.....?

[Muncher]

Approx 7.3 Football Pitches