# The biggest mistakes in mapmaking history

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED-Ed
- Speaker: Kayla Wolf
- Year: 2022
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: History, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/kayla_wolf_the_biggest_mistakes_in_mapmaking_history)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

For thousands of years, people made both functional maps and what are known as cosmographies, illustrating the earth and its position in the cosmos, often including constellations, gods, and mythic locations. These maps were meant to depict the world's geography, but weren't necessarily useful for navigation and contained some glaring mistakes. Kayla Wolf shares mapmaking's biggest blunders. \[Directed by Serin İnan, Kozmonot Animation Studio, narrated by Alexandra Panzer, music by Cem Misirlioglu, David Coltun\].

## Lectures

1. [The biggest mistakes in mapmaking history](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/kayla_wolf_the_biggest_mistakes_in_mapmaking_history/abdee94e7a6a), 5 min (TED's player)