If the maps and ground data were inconsistent (and it is an inconsistency that is highly predictable and thus would appear systematic rather than random) in this way, then it would be obvious that the Earth is Flat. As such the accuracy of these maps could easily be checked. This is the kind of knowledge that basic cartography give you, and it can not be adequately explained on a FE, but is easily explained by a Round Earth.Īlso, because two map makers would start off in different locations, the maps that they would draw from these kinds of measurements would create vast differences between the locations, distances and bearings to various points (like mountains, cities, rivers, you know pretty much anything on the map. This is because any sighting along a bearing of East/West on FE is at a tangent to the circle that they would follow if they constantly referred to the compass. Someone doing this near the North pole (say Alaska or Canada), will quickly see a major discrepancy between the bearings they make to landmarks and that reported by the compass on a FE. What you do is refer to the compass, make a bearing to a distant landmark, then upon reaching that land mark (or loosing sight of it), make another compass bearing. However, if you have ever done any cartographic work (field work specifically), or even partaken in the sport of orienteering, you know that you do not constantly refer to a compass for your direction. One point that the FEers keep bringing up about compasses is that if you use a compass it will point to North and East/West will be perpendicular to that so that as you travel East/West, you will go around the disk.
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