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Why is North at the Top of the Map?
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05-16-2003, 05:43 AM
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denim
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You're perfectly welcome to turn your globe with "south" pointing "up" if you like. The world's a spheroid in a place with no up or down, just relative directions: it doesn't matter. I guess you could say that it's a convention, but it's arbitrary.
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