How Many Kilometres Does One Square On The Map Represent?

[seanjo]

As the title ask's...I've tried google and even asked in game, no definitive answer so far. So please, what does one square on the map represent in kilometres?

[Rychu Karas]

The battle grid is around 500m, because control works up to 750m and in general it's around one and a half grid square. The Global map IDK. But its easy to measure

[admin]

length of cuba is 1250km 

 

[seanjo]

 

 

I'm getting 70km per side or 490km square. Does anyone want to check my dodgy calculations?

[seanjo]

Nah that's rubbish, half that maybe...

[Smithy]

find port that is on the map line, sail i block away and check trader tool distance to that port

i guesstimate 30km

Edited June 14, 2017 by Smithy

[Hethwill, the Red Duke]

make calculations according to degrees of latitude/longitude

Each degree of latitude is approximately 69 miles (111 kilometers)

Longitude works different, each degree can be wider or tighter depending on latitude away from the equator

Hence why 2D maps always show warped land on the grid.

In game I fear it is the 60x60 miles ?

[seanjo]

36 minutes ago, Smithy said:

find port that is on the map line, sail i block away and check trader tool distance to that port

i guesstimate 30km

How do you know when you've sailed a block away??????

[Smithy]

you take out your smart phone and check google maps

[seanjo]

Is this some sort of big secret? Surely a Dev/Mod knows the dimensions of a square on the map??

[Hethwill, the Red Duke]

what square ?

Post a picture please.

If it is in battle is 500m

[Norfolk nChance]

if I answer this how am I going to sell my delivery BOT for Naval Action...

 

[seanjo]

44 minutes ago, The Red Duke said:

what square ?

Post a picture please.

If it is in battle is 500m

There ya go...

[Hethwill, the Red Duke]

35km

[Smithy]

my guess was close!

[Hethwill, the Red Duke]

2 minutes ago, Smithy said:

my guess was close!

can be 36km

[Remus]

Well, well. 1 km in game must be very different from 1 km on land then. Unless the grid has changed, squares were labelled in half-degrees which is 30 nautical miles in the north-south direction and about 28 east-west at Caribbean latitudes. 30 nautical miles is 56 km, not 36.

[Hethwill, the Red Duke]

Thank you.

Maybe google maps ruler might be wrong.

[Prater]

Naval Action has its own projection and its own measurements of distance.  Give me a bit and I will tell you the distance.

[Hethwill, the Red Duke]

2 minutes ago, Prater said:

Naval Action has its own projection and its own measurements of distance.  Give me a bit and I will tell you the distance.

Many thanks

[Prater]

Ok, so let me explain something first.

As I said, Naval Action has its own projection that does not line up with any map I know of.  The units of distance of the real world do not match up.

In Naval Action we have two things:  knots, and coordinates.  We used to have latitude and longitude, but those corresponded to a certain distance of f11 coordinates and didn't correspond to actual latitude or longitude.

About 400 coordinate units is about how far you travel per unit of knot per minute of real time.  Let's call 400 coordinate units 1 Naval Action Nautical Mile (NANM).

So if you are going 20 knots, you will travel 8000 coordinate units per minute, or 20 NA Nautical Miles per minute.

 

Edited:  The larger squares are 255 NANM (102,000 coordinate units) and the smaller squares are 63.75 NANM (25,500 coordinate units).

 

Here is my map in game with the game grid.  Notice the old latitude longitude coordinates, this is 0.5 degrees of longitude, which is about how accurately you could calculate longitude in real life at this time.  The distance between the last i in Bimini and the main mast of the brig is 63.75 NANM.  Traveling 20 knots, it should only take about 3 minutes to travel this distance.

Edited June 19, 2017 by Prater

[seanjo]

What a fuss, right I've done a measurement with landmarks and ports using the trader tool, and I guesstimate that one square is roughly 30k a side.

 

Now! what is the big secret, why no definitive answer from Game-Labs?

[seanjo]

Ooops didn't see the Mod post above, so 35k's...thankyou.

[seanjo]

OR IS IT.......DANG DANG DAAAAAAAANG...

[Hethwill, the Red Duke]

longitude degree distance separation is not the same at all latitudes ( which is the same being parallel lines) So we don't really have squares ( we do but we warp the maps )

I think Prater answer is the most perfect to what we have in game.