Q. Why are the marks for the holds and the coloring of lakes and rivers wobbly?
A. I am an imperfect mapmaker. Inconsistent sizes in dots means nothing; only the coloration has relevance.
Q. What's the scale of the map?
A. Approximately fifty miles per inch.
Q. How long does it take to travel from one place to another?
A. Depends on your mode of transportation. Dragons' straight flight is thirty miles per hour. Over relatively flat land, humans can do 25-30 miles in a day; an average horse does a similar amount (but can carry a load). Oxen-pulled wagons travel at 10-15 miles per day. Ships sail at about 80 miles per day. When circumstances are rough, however -- mountainous terrain, bad weather, poor winds -- travel slows considerably.
Q: You moved things! / Why do you have that big bay marked as Monaco, instead of the Monaco Bay from the Dolphins of Pern map? / Why did you move Xanadu? / Etc.
A: Frostfire's history is not the same as canonical Pern history. Clearly, names like 'Xanadu' and 'Monaco' are derived from Earth records in AIVAS; the chances of Pern recreating those names out of thin air is slim to nil. In canonical Pern, AIVAS could tell them the 'old' names for the original settlements on Pern. In Frostfire Pern, AIVAS can give them names... but the locations that the names were applied to is badly garbled. So, though the settlers named the long, narrow bay by Landing 'Monaco Bay,' records from Frostfire's AIVAS only mentioned that a bay at Southern was called Monaco. The cartographers made an educated (but wrong) guess. The misnaming of various Southern landmarks is one of the things that makes Frostfire Pern, with its flawed AIVAS, distinct.