The Geography, compiled in Alexandria around 150 CE, gave latitude and longitude for some eight thousand places, along with instructions for projecting a curved earth onto a flat sheet. The maps that came with it did not survive; the tables did. When the text reached Europe again in the fifteenth century by way of Arabic and Byzantine copies, cartographers redrew the world from the coordinates.
Why this oneThe map was reconstructed from a list. The drawing was the disposable part.