Any evidence for this claim at all? Or just throwing it into the wind?
You would have to test the principle yourself in order to be truly convinced, but trust that navigators - naval, aerial, and terrestrial - factor the curvature of the earth into their calculations.
I can give you an anecdotal example, if you want.
Huh? He was claiming all maps of things South of the equator have errors to this day, and sailors still find themselves hours off course. Do *you* have evidence of this, even anecdotal?
I'm sorry lol
I completely misread what was being conveyed. My fault for skimming.
The point, evidence or no, is that totallackey is making two mistakes.
First, the fact that we started off designing maps that depicted the earth as flat is really quite meaningless, as it fits in with both models.
If the earth was a sphere, the fact that we designed FLAT maps is a reflection of two or three things: 1) Our limited perspective, 2) We tend to draw things on flat canvases like paper, sheepskin, etc., 3) Those canvases are almost always flat, unless wrapped around something that isn't.
The fact that the map is flat isn't an indication that the world itself is ACTUALLY flat. I can draw a convincing sketch of your profile in order to represent what you look like; it doesn't mean you're flat in REALITY just because I depicted you on a flat sheet of paper. The same principle holds for what totallackey is noticing about maps.
So again, this point is really irrelevant, as it fits in with the globe model AND flat earth model. Other things do not.
As for this claim about navigation being way off in the southern hemisphere, I'd like to hear more information as well.