Comment by andsoitis
5 hours ago
A more interesting change would be to flip maps “upside down”.
The “north is up” convention isn’t a real thing.
5 hours ago
A more interesting change would be to flip maps “upside down”.
The “north is up” convention isn’t a real thing.
I ponder whether, if the poles flipped and we survived that relatively intact, there would be a sudden enthusiasm for "South is up".
AFAIK in the past there were all sorts of 'up' conventions, for instance medieval European maps sometimes put East up, because Jerusalem is in the East.
Ancient mediterranean maps often were South up, as well as maps of Islamic cartoghraphers.
There were also Roman road maps which were entirely schematic, more like our modern public transport maps (e.g. such maps only cared about how locations were connected by roads and their distances, but not about any geographical mapping)