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Post old maps The less accurate the better
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Post old maps

The less accurate the better
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What's so bad about accuracy?
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>>594503
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>>594503
I find the wonky ones more interesting, gives insight into how the landscape was based on personal perception in lieu of accurate charting

But all are interesting
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>>594515
I like them but it's sometimes nearly impossible to get your bearings on some of the old ones.

This map, for example.
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>>594517
What the fuck is wrong with Yugoslavia? France, Greece, the Soviet Union and the Benelux should not look like that either.

Yep, that's really inaccurate.
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I've got some
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>>594531
just realised most of them are above the 4mb limit
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Kingdom of Hungary (1632)
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>>594541
Fuck.
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>>594539
I have no idea what this is
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>>594546
"A Korean map from the 1800s, entitled "Map of Heaven and Earth" (乾坤圖)"
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>>594549
Wow, that is incredibly shitty. Though I appreciate it's an advert or something similar, obviously not used for navigation.
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Religion in Austria - Hungary (1881)
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>>594535
I have the same problem.
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>>594549
>You will never settle America

an entire continent unspoiled.. just imagine. fug
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>Constantinople is Europe's feet

Sounds about right
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>>594508
Does that map have Florida as an island?
I wonder how they got that idea.
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>>595027
>Southern Greece is a weird tumor
accurate.
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>>596547
That's Cuba you dummy dumb dumbz.

Florida is still shown as a peninsula.
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>>596547
That is obviously Cuba.
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>>594508
I have that as my wallpaper
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>>594554
You would think they could at least give better detail of their own place in the world.
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>>596559
Sorry. I thought the thing below it was Cuba. That must be Hispaniola.
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>>594498

> the better
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>>596593
It does say so one the map, yes.
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The Matthew Paris map of Scotland c1250.

The point where the rivers (the Forth and Clyde) is Stirling Bridge. Interestingly, "Scotia" only refers to the area north of the bridge.
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>>597234
And, even better, Scotland according to the works of Ptolemy.
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>>596598
Do flat-earthers with this kind of image not understand basic geometry?
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>>597249
How do you even get this impression? I doubt any Roman expeditionary could claim they got past the Firth of Forth by going directly east.
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