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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[–] 2 points 3 months ago

Lots of replies about triangulation etc but the basic concept if a top down map was a military development by - Gallileo. That guy did so much

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