How did they draw maps?

[Virgin Mary]

How did people in like the pre-1800s draw maps? They drew them to scale, and very accurately so they couldn't have walked round the edge of the country because they include islands and oceans and stuff. Flying transport didn't appear until the late 1700s either.

[blaster.]

A pen and paper?
lol :s
Im not sure

[iluvben]

I don't know sorry , the world is full of mysterys.

[Alterate]

Magic! =/

[iluvben]

Magic! =/
That must be it ! :p

[Virgin Mary]

I'm guessing they used triangulation or aviation.

[ilovejordan]

They used boats or w/e
woah whats with me being smart :l
basically they drew them from what the explorers saw, hence why they thought the world was flat

[brandon]

They used boats or w/e
woah whats with me being smart :l
basically they drew them from what the explorers saw, hence why they thought the world was flat
Woah, smart remark from Cassie, I'll remember the day :p.

[ilovejordan]

Woah, smart remark from Cassie, I'll remember the day :p.

roflmao you better cos they're rare

[Diablo10]

Flying transport didn't appear until the late 1700s either

probly guessed lol

[blaster.]

Cassie is wrong.
Everyone used to be witchs and used their brooms

[ilovejordan]

Cassie is wrong.
Everyone used to be witchs and used their brooms

Cassie is never wrong

[Kasabian]

"Medieval "T-O" maps show Jerusalem at the centre of the world, and in some cases related the "body" of the Earth to the body of Christ."

[ilovejordan]

"Medieval "T-O" maps show Jerusalem at the centre of the world, and in some cases related the "body" of the Earth to the body of Christ."

you googled that didn't you tom? ;)

[Billay]

ask your son jesus.

[:dallsgreen]

probly guessed lol

probably, since they thought the world was flat.

[RedStratocas]

Actually a lot of them were guesses and since discovery was as big hundreds of years ago as the space stuff in the 50's/60's, so they were really into it

[Ryan+Joe]

Cassie is wrong.
Everyone used to be witchs and used their brooms
i lol'd for some reason

[PaintYourTarget]

Presumably they mapped the cost from Sea and like, checked it as accurate from a tall landscape feature?

[FlyingJesus]

If you know what speed you're going and what direction, you can probably map out an area to a certain scale (if you're very careful to be accurate). Once you've explored enough places, put them all together with a different scale and draw up a big map from them.

[Jargit]

They Take loadsw of pictures from the air...

Ordanance survey....

[Charlie]

They Take loadsw of pictures from the air...

Ordanance survey....

But there was no flying transport back then, as the Virgin Mary said herself.

[Cypher-]

They explored and mapped their routes, hundreds of different people composed maps in the earlier generations, now its done by something like the geological foundation or whatever its called, same way people made pyramids or how they built rome.. just kept at it until they done it right.

[Virgin Mary]

I thought they just did everything using complex mathematical skills.

[Cypher-]

lol there would be alot of mathematical equations involved as co-ordinates would need to be calculated correctly, but they would need to be mapping areas as they explored them otherwise they couldnt be certain.

Thats why some sections of the world have only been recently discovered in the 20th century.

[DMB-Hosting]

Some 1337 h4x0r downloaded them from mininova

[FrozenWhisper]

Cassie is wrong.
Everyone used to be witchs and used their brooms
Real witches don't fly on broomsticks ;l

[Neversoft]

You do know basically all maps have been rewritten to this century. :rolleyes_

[JonJon]

They walked around a drew it. It's the only REALISTIC way. ;)