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I don’t care much for cartography.
Maps, much like models - and for the same reasons, are tools for specific use (typically, travel). As long as a map is useful, it continues to be used.
We don’t study maps to measure what shape anything is. It is a common, and encouraged, mistake to confuse/conflate topography with topology. They are separate and distinct.
There are many AE maps that are useful enough for our travel purposes, but this is different than representative of / accurate for the entire world. There are no flawless maps, and this doesn’t vary with the conception of the shape of the world.
Thanks again for proving the point of my thread.
Ask someone who accepts a globe earth to show a map or model and they will be happy to do it.
Ask the same of a flat earther and they wriggle and deflect and try to get into philosophical discussions but they simply won't tell you who the Flat Earth looks like because they know that any map or model that is out there is bullshit.
Your intended point of this thread is to waste your own time. It’s “how to keep an idiot busy”. You are asking for something that doesn’t exist, knowing that it doesn’t exist, and then patting yourself on the back. You could have done that in an empty room offline.
Unbeknownst to you when you “asked” your rhetorical question, the real point is that having a model or not having a model is meaningless. As i said before, and you ignored - we have several geocentric models of the world being the center of the universe. They exist, they work, and we have them. Does that prove that the world is the center of the universe?
If i surprised you and provided you with a comprehensive model of a flat world (which is trivial to create - it just takes a long time, typically centuries, to do) - would that prove the world was flat? The answer to all the above questions is no, and you ought to understand why.
If the world is flat, all maps are flat earth maps. In fact, the vast majority of maps depict the world as flat. There are many available “flat earth” maps.
As for a model, it is true there is no scientific flat earth model - but i am pretty certain that if i asked you (and certainly most all who “accept a globe earth”) for a scientific model of it - you would fail to provide it. You would mistake google earth, or a toy globe for a scientific model :(
There are no “flat earthers” in the way you mean. You were “asking” products and/or agents of a psyop.
I’m not a flat earther, but i neither wriggled nor deflected your questions. There are plenty of maps available but none of them are flawless; this doesn’t vary wether the mapmaker conceives the world to be spherical or flat. Perfect maps don’t exist, and don’t need to - they are merely tools for getting us where we are intending to go.
Thanks for admitting that. Can you explain why that is the case?
I would not fail to provide that. There have been maps before Google Earth, did you know that?
I stated it clearly in the very first comment to you in this thread.
Because it hasn’t been built, and there is no real need to build one. As i said, models are tools for specific use. What would the use of such a model be?
Besides, models of the entire world take centuries if not millennia to compile (and that is WITH phenomenal funding and vast numbers of people working on it). Expecting one to exist when you snap your fingers is crazy.
Of course! Did you know maps are not scientific models (they are maps)? :)