Editing Atlas (section)

==Types==
A ''travel atlas'' is made for easy use during travel, and often has spiral bindings, so it may be folded flat. National atlases in Europe are typically printed at a scale of 1:250,000 to 1:500,000;{{efn|about 4 miles to the inch to about 7{{sfrac|2}} miles/inch}} city atlases are 1:20,000 to 1:25,000,{{efn|about 3 inches/mile to 2{{sfrac|2}} inches/mile}}  doubling for the central area (for example, [[Geographers' A-Z Map Company]]'s A–Z atlas of [[London]] is 1:22,000 for [[Greater London]] and 1:11,000 for [[Central London]]).{{efn|About 4 inches/mile and 8 inches/mile.}}<ref>{{cite book |title=A-Z London |publisher=Geographers' A-Z Map Company |isbn=9780850394900}}</ref>  A travel atlas may also be referred to as a ''road map''.<ref>{{cite dictionary| url= http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/road%20map|title=Road map|dictionary= Merriam Webster|access-date=2012-05-31}}</ref>

A ''desk atlas'' is made similar to a [[reference book]]. It may be in hardback or paperback form.

[[Star atlas]]es depict the [[celestial sphere]] in cartographic format, focusing on the major named [[asterism (astronomy)|asterism]]s. There are atlases of the other planets (and their satellites) in the [[Solar System]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The NASA Atlas of the Solar System|isbn=978-0521561273|author1=Greeley, Ronald|author2=Batson, Raymond}}</ref>

Atlases of [[anatomy]] exist, mapping out organs of the human body or other organisms.<ref>{{cite news |last=Schwartz |first=John |date=2008-04-22 |title=The Body in Depth |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/science/22bass.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2015-05-07 }}</ref>