» Did You Know Mapmakers Used to Make Up Fake Towns in Order to Catch Plagiarists?

Mapmaking, if you do it properly, is a time-consuming and money-consuming business. You have to do field surveys and travel to multiple locations, some of which can’t be accessed in a vehicle. You have to measure distances, angles and elevations using heavy, cumbersome equipment like theodolites, leveling instruments and very long tape measures. And once […]