Most other U.S. states have similar initiatives, such as Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment. In New York state, the MOLST form is a New York State Department of Health form (DOH-5003). MOLST is for patients such as a terminally ill patient, whether or not treatment is provided.
Scale is most often used in architectural sketches, paintings, drawings and other artistic mediums. Artists create scales for drawings to correctly show the size relationship between objects. For example, an artist may decide that 1 inch is equivalent to 10 feet.
Scale (map) The scale of a map is usually defined as the ratio of a single unit of distance on the map to the corresponding distance on the ground. Although this is true for accurate large scale maps, covering a restricted area, it is not true for map projections of the curved surface of the Earth to the plane.