The Wrong Side of my Car
The blog that wants to go obsolete
5 Feb 2024
The scale on maps is… quite fluid
Remember when the map was still this huge folded sheet of paper in the door of your car?
By now, that has become yet another thing inside your phone, just like your FM radio, your flashlight, MP3 player, agenda, alarm clock, newspaper. Maybe not that FM radio anymore, but you get the idea.
Even though that old paper map and this map inside your phone come from the same reality, they are not quite the same. Below is a modern slippy map (I picked OpenTopoMap, based on OpenStreetMap data *1) and the stuff that used to be printed on the Michelin paper maps.
Can you spot the differences?
