Corrections
This atlas will contain errors. Here is how to tell us, and what happens when you do.
How to report one
Write to support.chartedvoyages@gmail.com with the journey and the exact stop, log entry, source or passage. The more precisely you can point at it, the faster it gets fixed. If what you have found is a security problem rather than a factual one, say so in the subject line and please do not post it anywhere public.
What makes a report actionable
The single most useful thing you can include is a locator: the page, entry date, chapter, or book and line where the evidence sits. A link to a stable copy of the edition helps. If the passage is short, quote it.
- For a factual or date error: the source, the edition, and the exact locator.
- For a route or coordinate: say whether the problem is the modern reference point, the historical identification, the interpolated line, or only how it is drawn. These have different fixes.
- For a certainty label: say whether the evidence is stronger or weaker than the label claims. Both directions are corrections.
- For a quotation: the edition you checked against, and whether the difference is wording, attribution, or the locator.
What happens next
Reports are checked against the source hierarchy in Method and against the edition already cited. Where scholarship genuinely disagrees, a claim may need more than one independent source to move.
A report can end in several ways, and only one of them is "we changed the fact": a correction, a stronger uncertainty label, an expanded editorial note, a content warning added — or no change, with an explanation of what the existing wording is resting on. Being told your report was reviewed and rejected, and why, is a legitimate outcome.
How corrections are published
A correction updates the existing page, its underlying record, its citations and its review date. The address of the page never changes, so a link you saved still works and now shows the corrected text.
We do not silently promote an approximate or disputed claim to a documented one. Where a correction changes an interpretation rather than a typo, it is summarised in that journey's editorial note.