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In cartography, a map is a representation or abstraction of geographic reality. Maps are used for a wide range of purposes, including navigation, scientific research, governance, and warfare. A common
The Cantino planisphere, created ten years after Columbus's first voyage, included the Americas.
An equidistant projection centered on Khartoum
Interrupted Goode homolosine
Miller cylindrical
Early world maps
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The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appea
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…simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). History Antiquity to 14th century A world map based on Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography Tabula Rogeriana, an early world map, by Muhammad al-Idrisi, 1154 (north is down) It is unknown when or where humans created the first maps. The fact that maps appear in the historical…
A 1628 reconstruction of Posidonius' ideas about the positions of continents (many details could not have been known by Posidonius)
Modern re-drawing of the Tabula Peutingeriana, from Iberia in the west, to India in the east.
Original Tabula Rogeriana (1154) with south up.