What's the scale of the maps?

[LoneGoat]

I'm creating a homebrew campaign, and the first adventure will take part in Castrovel, so i'm using the maps available in Pact Worlds and Dead Suns.

As i create the journey my players will take, i've noticed that i cant really measure distances and calculate travel times without scales, and i cant find it in any of the maps. Is there somewhere i can find these scales?

[Leon Aquilla]

In the core book/Near Space/various AP back-covers the diameter of each planet is listed. So you would take the diameter of the Earth and divide it by whatever the scale is listed. E.G. Aballon is 1/3rd the diameter of Golarion (read: Earth).

So Aballon's map is approximately 2640 miles in width.

Stretch that out on Roll20 to the width you want, change the grid overlay to hexes. Count how many hexes wide it is. That's your scale. A 50 hex wide map of Aballon would be about 52 miles per hex.

[Tim Emrick]

I'm guessing the lack of scale on the world maps is due to the fact that they are projections of a 3D object's surface onto a plane. If you can figure out where the equator is, you can estimate distances there using the stated diameter (as Leon Aquilla suggests), but the farther north or south you go, the more distorted the scale becomes. (Google "Mercator projection" if you're not familiar with the term.)

The Idari map, in contrast, would have a pretty consistent scale throughout, being the inner surface of a rotating cylinder.

Personally, I would love to see some of the Starfinder world maps redrawn in the form of a hex-gridded icosahedron, like Traveller and GURPS Space used.