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Re:Inuit Cartography: Wooden Coastline Maps That Fit in a Mi... by netgusto on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @03:19AM (#11525364)
The mapping between the coastline and the maps looks distorted though - it seems that what matters on these is the succession of capes and creeks rather than proportions or topography. Any insight on how useful this would be while navigating in the dark ?
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Re:Inuit Cartography: Wooden Coastline Maps That Fit in a Mi... by Papachooka on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @09:51AM (#11526889)
I've heard of indigenous maps scaled by time of travel rather than physical distances. Maybe that's why these Inuit maps look distorted.

I've never seen such maps (only heard of them), so if anyone has a link to such a map I'd be interested.

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Re:Inuit Cartography: Wooden Coastline Maps That Fit in a Mi... by willvarfar on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @05:02AM (#11525734)
Presumably they are more useful than not having a map, else the inuit wouldn't have bothered making and using them?
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