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user-inactivated · 3617 days ago · link · · parent · post: World War II Led to a Revolution in Cartography
Why? Because he zoomed in? None of his maps seem grossly inaccurate to me at all. What a fun read, though.Harrison's critics claimed his work was more propagandistic and pictorial than scientific and reliable, governed by caricatures of the globe rather than fidelity to latitude and longitude.
I don't think the criticisms are because they are inaccurate. My guess is that his 'maps' were not scientific enough. They appear to be photos taken from space (even though they are still projections, a photo taken from an infinite distance) instead of proper cartographically correct maps, which never pretend to be anything but a map. That, or they were just jealous of his skills. Who wouldn't be?