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Re:A Cartographer Drew a Freehand Map of North America (2019) by marmight on Sunday December 24, 2023 @07:54AM (#38753164)
It is labeled correctly on his map, but he is recorded as saying something incorrect in the article:

> Also Baffin Island in Greenland. So few people have been to that part of the world.

Baffin Island is in Canada. Since this would be something silly for a cartographer to get wrong, I wonder if he didn't actually say "Baffin Island and Greenland" and his response was incorrectly transcripted.

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Re:A Cartographer Drew a Freehand Map of North America (2019) by fatnoah on Monday December 25, 2023 @09:29AM (#38762867)
FWIW, I've worked with professional cartographers, and a huge part of their focus was designing _how_ the information was displayed. They weren't specifically experts on the geography itself, though naturally they did have some steong knowledge there.
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