ABSTRACT
The geographic scale has been from small to medium or if we want to sound a bit more scholarly, from the micro to the meso scale. The Greek roots always sound much more respectable. Our macro-geographic viewpoint has led us from pressure surfaces, income fronts, winds of influence and patterns of contacts to political divisions too often enforced by military might. At the macro level the maps in the publications tell a different story and we can almost certain that we are looking at the work of a geographer, or the work of people who were strongly influenced at some point in their careers by geographers, like the historian Fernand Braudel. The maps of William Wamtz and John Stewart were very important for the way they gave human geographers a renewed sense of the broad viewpoint and Wamtz did not confine his thinking simply to human affairs.
