I roughly know how world maps were created, but detailed local maps of towns and forest’s are something I find interesting. What methods were used to scale down in world, to paper distances?
I roughly know how world maps were created, but detailed local maps of towns and forest’s are something I find interesting. What methods were used to scale down in world, to paper distances?
Er, not really… for instance:
Which ‘day’? Before digital mapping? Before cartography as a formal practice? Before the invention of the compass? Before the standardization of the meter? Before the printing press? Before Galileo? Before Eratosthenes?
The time period of the question is potentially the entirety of human history. That’s quite broad.
In which part of the world? In which culture? For what purpose? (e.g. navigation? coastal, inland, international? crop planting? city planning? determining property lines? etc)
This is not a straightforward question in any way. A complete answer would be an undergraduate degree with a double major in history and geography.
Oh fuck off mate, anything “back in the day” just means before tech, if you wanna pick a specific timeline, go for it, but thats cause you wanna talk about a specific timeline. You can answer the question through any pre-google maps timeline and no one would question you for shit, this isnt your prof. history class, it’s some dude that prolly just had a wank and mid post nut clarity went “how the fuck did me great granddaddy get around the country?”
As for methods, same basic concept as my first question, answer with whatever knowledge you have, but mapping, 95% of the time, would mean how to get from your house to your local Trader Joe’s.
Please step down from your high horse.
“Before tech” and “great granddaddy” and “local Trader Joe’s” are 3 different time periods. Sure they could’ve just chosen one, but it might not be what OP was curious about.
An individual who’s curious enough to ask the question would probably be curious enough to further drill down to a specific time period that they’re curious about. This could have led into good discussion.
If you want something that just tells you an answer and doesn’t question you or ask you to clarify, then you can use an LLM. If you want conversation, you can use Lemmy.
My brother in christ, maybe asking a broad question shows his lack of knowledge…yk what helps to create new knowledge as a noob? Asking fucking questions and having people teach you, you twat.