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[Urist McTravis]

i'm sure this has been done before, but assuming each dwarf occupies a tile 1m x 1m, what is the size of a large world map? would it be an area the size of europe or something considerably smaller, england maybe?

any thoughts?

[Reelyanoob]

One embark tile is 48x48 'dwarf' squares. A maximum embark is 16x16 of these, so 768 x 768 "metres". A world is at least 17x17 embark areas.

So a pocket map would be 768 x 17 metres across, or 13 km at that scale. A large map (257 x 257) would be 197km across, so about 38809 km^2

The area of England itself is 130,395 km^2. But this is just "England" the kingdom. Great Britain is 244,820 km^2, or about 6-7 times the size of the largest worldgen (assuming 1 sq = 1 metre)

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Total_land_area_of_england

Why not use imperial, and say 1 square = 10 feet? (3 metres). That would make a large map a little bigger than Great Britain

[Blade Master Model 42]

Keep in mind that all creatures occupy a 1x1 tile. Including collossuses, Dragons, etc. So trying to put an embark into measurable terms of distance probably would just raise unpleasant questions.

Try not to think about it too hard.