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?

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[–] 1 point 3 months ago

step 1. you take a piece of paper
step 2. you paint a picture of what you think the landscape looks like from above
step 3. you add names and descriptions to all the small icons that you just drawed

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