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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[–] 4 points 5 months ago

Yep and in the UK os maps still have many of the trig points on them. Sometimes there are actual markers on the ground as well.

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