{"id":151,"date":"2011-08-14T13:40:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T18:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/?p=151"},"modified":"2020-02-19T10:55:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T15:55:05","slug":"how-did-ancient-cartographers-make-accurate-maps-of-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/2011\/08\/14\/how-did-ancient-cartographers-make-accurate-maps-of-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2610 How did ancient cartographers make accurate maps of islands?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t help but wonder how people made accurate maps in the old days before satellites or even air-ships. To accurately map the edges of an island, they would need to either see it from above, or else to keep exceedingly\u2014and painstakingly\u2014difficult measures of both distance and angles as the shore twists and turns.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/tag\/cartography\/\" rel=\"tag\">Cartography<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/tag\/explanation\/\" rel=\"tag\">Explanation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/tag\/history\/\" rel=\"tag\">History<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/tag\/maps\/\" rel=\"tag\">Maps<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/tag\/unsolved\/\" rel=\"tag\">Unsolved<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t help but wonder how people made accurate maps in the old days before satellites or even air-ships. To accurately map the edges of an island, they would need to either see it from above, or else to keep exceedingly\u2014and painstakingly\u2014difficult measures of both distance and angles as the shore twists and turns. Cartography, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,9,25,23,7],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cartography","tag-explanation","tag-history","tag-maps","tag-unsolved"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}