A map would certainly not reflect actual or accurate distances of a globe earth.
Take a look at the size of Greenland on a Mercator map sometime.
Ever thought
why it appears distorted when viewing a flat map of the Earth?
Because it's not it's actual representation.
Here's an example of something similar:
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs46/f/2009/213/6/b/Old_Man_facemap_by_SnakebitSamurai.jpgThe only map of the Earth you need to worry about when discussing the errors of Earth maps are the globes themselves - every other map is derived and distorted from that to make it flat, your argument has no substance.
I know that the time it takes to fly from Wellington, NZ, to Brisbane, AUS, is approximately 240 minutes in an Airbus A320.
Max cruising speed 903km/h (487kt) at 28,000ft, economical cruising speed 840km/h (454kt) at 37,000ft
We can work out that the distance from Wellington to Brisbane for the plane I was in and it's route was less than 3612km and 3360km (Note, these are only using the 2 speeds specified, which would be how far the plane could fly at these speeds for the time duration)
The straight line distance between these two cities on RE is around 2500km, which gives it a nice cruising speed of around 630km/h
It turns out, that a flight from London, England, takes around the same amount of time to get to Moscow, Russia.
Both are approximately the same distance, yet on FE, one is twice as long.
So, when FE'ers can get off their asses, stop with the excuses, and actually try to help themselves - they might realize that it just doesn't work.