I'm not being pedantic about anything. Please point out a single instance where I have engaged in pedantry of any kind. I'm not debating semantics, using sophistic arguments, moving the goalposts, or doing anything of the sort. Your claim is totally fabricated, and I directly challenge you to find a single instance of such behaviour on my part in this thread. If you can't, I ask that you retract your unfair and unjustified comments.
All I'm asking for is some actual evidence that FE maps are distorted. You know, evidence, that thing that is used to back up otherwise baseless claims. None has been posted, by you or anyone else. End of story. End of discussion. If you want to claim that asking for evidence is 'pedantry', then go right ahead, but don't expect anyone to enter into serious discussion with you.
The following post is EarthISroundISproven showing you what he's basing his cartographic convictions on, as you asked him in the post above his:
I've spent ten years making nautical maps. I can tell you right now that the FE map is incorrect. The distance between cape horn and cape town alone on the FE map is approx 5 times what it is in reality. I know it takes me 12 days at 14 knots to sail between the two. On the FE map it would take five times that! (or I would have to sail at a speed no ship can do to make it in 12 days) How stupid do you think we are. How stupid do you think the thousands of vessels and the navigators that sail them every day accross every ocean are? FACT the earth is a globe...proven every day by every ship that sails accross an ocean. Get yourself a boat and see for yourself Wilmore.
Your answer a few posts below:
So the answer is that none of you know that FE maps are distorted, or that RE maps are accurate. You just assume these things.
Glad we cleared that up.
So he's clearly explained to you why the maps he's using to sail from cape horn to cape town must be accurate (see: the sailed distance and the amount of time it took fit with what the RE-based map predicts, not with what your FE-maps predict), and you flatly ignore this explanation by telling him he's just assuming things.
Let me tell you: nothing in his post makes me think that he's assuming things. He clearly knows what he's talking about. The difference is: I'm willing to accept his account of the journeys he's made, you're unwilling to do this and thus you continue to ask for "more proof".
Hence my proposition: If you don't believe him when he's telling you about his experience, then by all means go find out for yourself if the RE-maps are correct.
And that's just one example. I could post a few more, if you like.
Btw: I'm not looking for a debate about this. I'm simply pointing out what makes it so bloody difficult / annoying to argue with you FE-ers. Nothing personal of course, as I don't know you as person => simply aimed at the way debates are being held in here.
This post is so stupid it beggars belief. The only reason you think he "clearly knows what he's talking about" is because he says so. He has presented no evidence whatsoever. On this forum, you can't just make a claim and expect everyone to take your word for it. Would you take my word for it if I claimed the opposite? I doubt it.