Tag: mappa mundi

• The world according to the Hereford Mappa Mundi

  

  I set the largest surviving medieval map of the world beside a modern one. Its directions from Jerusalem are mostly right; its scale is not: the Holy Land is drawn 4.5 times too big, and Britain has 8% of its names.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  cartography, data visualisation, Hereford, history, Jerusalem, mappa mundi, maps, medieval