Why Do Map Makers Lie

Map Makers LieMap Makers Don’t KnowTo Much InfoThings Have ChangedIt Is More Useful To Have A False MapThey Don’t Know The Real TerritoryDon’t Want People To KnowTerritory Is To Big Conclusion

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All map makers lie. Not one single map in the world is ever 100% correct. A map is most accurate when it comes out / when it is first published. There are different reasons why map makers lie, here are some of them……..

Map Makers Lie

The first reason map makers lie is because they don’t know the real territory. Take a look at the map on the left. Guess what country it is. It’s Ireland. An old map of Ireland. It’s missing a whole lot of things like Easkey, Connemara and the big bump on the left hand side of Ireland. If you compare the two maps then you can see the difference between them. Back then people didn’t know exactly what Ireland looked like.

Map Makers Don’t Know

The next reason map makers lie is because there is to much info to put on one piece of paper. If you look to the left of the screen you will see a map of Venice. As you can see not every canal is shown

on this map because there is to much info to put on the map.

To Much Info

Another one of the reasons map makers lie is because over the years things have changed.

Here is an example…

This is an old map of the world.

As you can see Australia is not marked on this map, that is

because it was not discovered yet. Also look at South America,

everything like rivers to villages is marked in. But look at North America its blank. That is because no one has discovered inland of North America yet.

THINGS HAVE CHANGED

They also lie because it is more useful to have a false map. It is more useful because if map makers made 100% true maps then it would be to difficult to read the map and you wouldn’t get anywhere. This is a map of a city in Egypt called Dahab. There

are so many streets, side roads and alleys that it is crazy.

But the map maker made it easier for us and put enough detail for us to understand the map.

It Is More Useful To Have A False Map

Map makers don’t know the real territory and therefore can’t give you the true info. This is an old map of Africa. As you can

see the curve on the left hand side is way to long. That’s because many years ago

people did not know the real territory of Africa.

They Don’t Know The Real Territory

Another reason map makers lie is because they don’t want people to know the real territory. Think of a pirate map, they would make a real one for themselves and a fake one for other people to find.

Now this one is a fake kids map but… This one is what a real pirate map would look like. The pirate might use this one

Don’t Want People To Know

The final reason map makers lie is because sometimes the territory is to big. Take the Russian Federation for example, its huge. Take a look at this map to the left of the screen, Russia can barely fit on that map, why because the landmass of Russia is to big to fit on that tiny map. So map makers have to make the landmass smaller.

Territory Is To Big

As I have explained in these 11 slides all map makers lie. Map makers don’t always lie deliberately as sometimes they don’t have the correct information to put on the map. They also lie/mislead because the true information is sometimes too much for map readers to understand. My final conclusion is that map makers can be mislead or sometimes they mislead for the better of the map reader but they do not deliberately lie

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