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Your question is not stupid, but it is overly vague and broad. An equally vague and broad answer would be: "They did their best with the tools and knowledge they had, tried to copy other cartographer's work (and failing that, their techniques), and otherwise just guessed. Failingthat, they made it up in ways that would benefit themselves the most.
Source: I read the Map Men's book not too long ago.
There is nothing broad about their questions, it's literally a straightforward and to the point question. Though not stupid.
Er, not really... for instance:
Which 'day'? Before digital mapping? Before cartography as a formal practice? Before the invention of the compass? Before the standardization of the meter? Before the printing press? Before Galileo? Before Eratosthenes?
The time period of the question is potentially the entirety of human history. That's quite broad.
In which part of the world? In which culture? For what purpose? (e.g. navigation? coastal, inland, international? crop planting? city planning? determining property lines? etc)
This is not a straightforward question in any way. A complete answer would be an undergraduate degree with a double major in history and geography.
Oh fuck off mate, anything "back in the day" just means before tech, if you wanna pick a specific timeline, go for it, but thats cause you wanna talk about a specific timeline. You can answer the question through any pre-google maps timeline and no one would question you for shit, this isnt your prof. history class, it's some dude that prolly just had a wank and mid post nut clarity went "how the fuck did me great granddaddy get around the country?"
As for methods, same basic concept as my first question, answer with whatever knowledge you have, but mapping, 95% of the time, would mean how to get from your house to your local Trader Joe's.
Please step down from your high horse.
"Before tech" and "great granddaddy" and "local Trader Joe's" are 3 different time periods. Sure they could've just chosen one, but it might not be what OP was curious about.
An individual who's curious enough to ask the question would probably be curious enough to further drill down to a specific time period that they're curious about. This could have led into good discussion.
If you want something that just tells you an answer and doesn't question you or ask you to clarify, then you can use an LLM. If you want conversation, you can use Lemmy.
My brother in christ, maybe asking a broad question shows his lack of knowledge...yk what also helps to create new knowledge as a noob? Asking fucking questions and having people teach you, you twat.
Why are you being this way? Are you usually like this?
With idiots, yes.
Um... but you said:
Okay i understand what you mean, when I said that I meant it in a way, their question isnt broad in a negative way, it's broad in a very normal question type of way, so you can't blame him for asking a normal question, it may be broad to an expert, but if he was an expert he would be answering, not asking.
Lmao. "When I said broad, I didn't mean broad, I meant notmal". And you go around calling other people idiots...
Normal people broad, not stupid person broad, and I don't call other people idiots, just you.