Talk:Tabula Peutingeriana
"There is some question whether the Peutinger Table should be called a map, as it makes no attempt to represent real landforms." This is tantamount to "The Peutinger Table does not satisfy modern conceptions of a map". I'll just make the substitution. --Wetman 23:50, 29 April 2006 (UTC) I reverted the categorization, since Historical maps is an empty cat replaced by history maps, which is intended for maps of the history of. These kind of maps beling in the cat Old maps. Electionworld Talk? 17:39, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
Why would there be any thought that it is not a map. The Hereford Mappa Mundi is in the same category. Yes it doesn't look like our maps. But it displays milage from cities and towns. With town names, featured places, like the light-house of Alexandria. The Catographer had to show every known city and road in the known world, and make it readable, how else could he have done it. Think of it as a scroll.--Gmonte1 16:35, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Compression
The following was anonymously addressed to my Talkpage, by User:Euratlas:
- "Longitude is the East-West geographic coordinate measurement and latitude is the North-South. Do you agree?
- 'On the Peutingerian map, from North to South, for instance from the latitude of Dubris (Dover) to the latitude of Rusucurru (Dellys or Tigzirt, North Africa) the distance is about 19 centimeters. West-East, from the longitude of Gerunda (Girona) to the longitude of Muziris (Cranganore = Kodungallur, India) the distance is about 670 centimeters. So, I would say the the North-South distances are compressed.
A glance at the illustration at the article Tabula Peutingeriana compared to the familiar map dimensions of Southern Italy seems to how that, with North to the left, it is the longitude that is compressed. If I'm misinformed, do let's have the article correct.--Wetman 19:34, 15 August 2007 (UTC).
Johannes Moretus/Jean Moret
Isn't Jean Moret the same person as Johannes Moretus? Shouldn't that be indicated? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.168.216.243 (talk) 00:35, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
POV
Teh section that decsribes the map has a POV paragraph in which there is a discussion of what makes up a map which is clearly based on the author's own conception of what a map must include. The same points of what the Tabula Peutingeriana contains and doesn't contain can be made without those referents and in an impartial manner consistent with how the map would have been used and viewed at the time of its creation. Shsilver 14:27, 4 December 2007 (UTC)