My argument so far has been that from the ground up, looking strictly at infrastructure and human interactions, the population doesn't seem to be anywhere as high as 40 million. I finally managed to process and write down some new ideas. Thank you all for the interesting points you brought up.
It's a fair bit further east than on the maps (on the bay east of the peninsula pointing at Bear Island rather than south of the peninsula itself), but it works pretty well. In this case, the line from the sea to the river measures at 348 pixels, and the north-south dimension of the Seven Kingdoms is 3,482 pixels, or about exactly 10 times as long (hence Westeros back to 3,000 miles, or just under).ĮTA: And yes, if you keep the distance at 348 pixels and move it close to the coast, you can get Deepwood Motte to a place that works. On the LoIaF maps, the Wall extends and curves significantly further south and west along the Gorge, making the Wall longer (and thus the scale on the map smaller).įrom your comments it sounds like it might be better to disregard this curve - although supported in the text as early as ASoS - and stick with the original placement of the line on the original maps. So on all the original maps, the Wall is a straight line starting from quite high up on the Milkwater and cutting due east to the sea. I'm not strictly sure what happened to make that happen, but that's the situation near as I can tell.
What I can say is that if I use one of the most precise figures we have - Tumbleton to KL as 60 leagues, per F&B, where George was possibly starting to use the LoIaF map - to figure out things, on George's original map the distance from Castle Black to the south of Dorne is ~2900 miles, whereas as Wert says on the LoIaF map it's nearer to ~2750.
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