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Flat Earth Discussion Boards => Flat Earth Investigations => Topic started by: SobekLover on November 28, 2018, 06:19:22 PM

Title: Question About Plotting Courses on a Flat Earth
Post by: SobekLover on November 28, 2018, 06:19:22 PM

Hi there,
I've been investigating Flat Earth, and I'm interested in conducting a test of the accuracy of the globe and flat models. I can't find detailed enough versions of the flat version of the Earth to really conduct proper measurements and chart a course, but I just wanted to ask if I've charted the most direct possible path across the two models, so I know which routes to test.

(https://i.imgur.com/RNESasM.jpg)

Cape Town to Melbourne isn't necessarily the best path to test - There's a direct flight from Johannesburg to Perth for example - but I haven't found a detailed enough Flat Earth map to be able to properly measure the distances between places the way you can with google Earth. Are there some more detailed maps I could access somewhere to use for this test?

Thanks in advance!

Title: Re: Question About Plotting Courses on a Flat Earth
Post by: Pinky on November 29, 2018, 07:54:49 AM

Quote from: SobekLover on November 28, 2018, 06:19:22 PM

Hi there,
I've been investigating Flat Earth, and I'm interested in conducting a test of the accuracy of the globe and flat models. I can't find detailed enough versions of the flat version of the Earth to really conduct proper measurements and chart a course, but I just wanted to ask if I've charted the most direct possible path across the two models, so I know which routes to test.

(https://i.imgur.com/RNESasM.jpg)

Cape Town to Melbourne isn't necessarily the best path to test - There's a direct flight from Johannesburg to Perth for example - but I haven't found a detailed enough Flat Earth map to be able to properly measure the distances between places the way you can with google Earth. Are there some more detailed maps I could access somewhere to use for this test?

Thanks in advance!

I once proposed a similar experiment:
You pick two random locations A and B on the same latitude high up north and measure their distance in East-West-direction.
Then you pick two random locations C and D on the same latitude deep south and measure their distance in East-West-direction.

If FE is true, the distance AB is smaller than on the SE-map and the distance CD is larger than on the SE-map.

For example, according to the SE-map of Google Earth, the distance from Capetown to Port Elizabeth should be 660 km.