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South-up map orientation (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 months ago by merde@sh.itjust.works to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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More noteworthy than the technical matter of orientation, per se, is the history of explicitly using south-up map orientation as a political statement, that is, creating south-up oriented maps with the express rationale of reacting to the north-up oriented world maps that have dominated map publication during the modern age.

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[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

maybe because the projection is less deformed when you take only a region?

i navigate with north as my point of reference but i can see how an east up map can be as natural (with the sun moving from top to bottom, i can still function)

but looking at a map where sun moves from left to right, i'm like you—it's bugging me

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

You know what, I think that's it! Thank you :)