Mini North Arrow and Scale Set

in this video I will show you how to make a scale bar in a North arrow these elements are not altogether necessary if your audience is familiar with the orientation and scale of the terrain your mapping for instance most 4 monitors would know that North is up on this map of Lake Champlain also it needs to get carried away and make scales and North arrows that are got e'en far too large in general it's a good idea to keep scale bars in North eras simple and out of the way and remember to consider whether you need one at all but for this map we're going to show you how to make a scale bar on a North arrow that's similar to this style of those on the historical maps that you've been looking at to start with I've gone to Google Earth and measured the approximate distance between Colchester point here and Shelburne point here and the way that we're going to start making our scale bar is by d