Any idea how they got a map of the whole world exactly?
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Thread Topic: Any idea how they got a map of the whole world exactly?
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Conspiracy theories 👀
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I don't think cartographers would be able to lie to the entire world, and as we can see continents from space and take pictures with satellites the maps we use would be pretty close.
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Triangulation was the primary method used in the past.
Here's some articles that explain the history of cartography
How Did They Create Maps In The Olden Days
HOW WERE MAPS MADE BEFORE PLANES AND SATELLITES?
Also an except from Wikipedia on the history of cartography:
"The earliest maps ignored the curvature of Earth's surface, both because the shape of the Earth was uncertain and because the curvature is not important across the small areas being mapped. However, since the age of Classical Greece, maps of large regions, and especially of the world, have used projection from a model globe in order to control how the inevitable distortion gets apportioned on the map.
Modern methods of transportation, the use of surveillance aircraft, and more recently the availability of satellite imagery have made documentation of many areas possible that were previously inaccessible. Free online services such as Google Earth have made accurate maps of the world more accessible than ever before"
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