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I looked up my next travel destination on Martin Behaim's 1492 globe. It's completely in the wrong place - the Arabs had at this time much more accurate maps of this region as this is very close to one of their most important places and still today there is an arrow in every hotel room, there are iPhone apps and GPS devices and Thuraya phones and info displays in airplanes pointing with satellite based precision to exactely these coordinates.