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Old 05-15-2003, 06:51 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Why is North at the Top of the Map?

Why is north at the top of the map and south at the bottom? Is there some reason that North America, Europe, and Asia are considered being on the "top" of the globe and South America, Australia, and Antarctica are on the "bottom" of the globe? Can anyone share some insight on how this all developed? Perhaps the south pole is really the "top" of the planet....
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Old 05-15-2003, 06:57 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Old 05-15-2003, 07:02 PM   #3 (permalink)
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most likely, the cartographers originally were from Northern Hemisphere locations.

Or the majority of "us" consider "the south" inferior!!!
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Old 05-15-2003, 10:19 PM   #4 (permalink)
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'Cuz if south was at the top, everything would be upside down.
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Old 05-15-2003, 11:14 PM   #5 (permalink)
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The Greeks and Romans put East on top of their maps to honor the rising sun. It wasn't until the ?13th? Century when most travel was towards the north. Armies, traders, and others just used it for convience and it just stuck that way.
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Old 05-16-2003, 03:16 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Oddly enough, since North is up, the world spins counterclockwise. You would think that the people that decided North was up would have designed a clock that rotates the same direction as the earth.
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Old 05-16-2003, 05:43 AM   #7 (permalink)
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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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Old 05-16-2003, 05:45 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Oddly enough, since North is up, the world spins counterclockwise. You would think that the people that decided North was up would have designed a clock that rotates the same direction as the earth.
You can get left-handed clocks, too. It's a strange world.
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Old 05-16-2003, 07:22 AM   #9 (permalink)
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My wife's family is from the Maritimes, what she calls "down" east.
Usually I go up north, down south and out west/east. When I ask her why it's "down" east she says it's because of a feeling.
I don't feel down when I go see the folks and it's even more weird that we have to drive north, then east to get there.
So shouldn't it be "up" east in any event?

Who's with me here?
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Old 05-16-2003, 07:31 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Oddly enough, since North is up, the world spins counterclockwise. You would think that the people that decided North was up would have designed a clock that rotates the same direction as the earth.
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but if you lay on your back with your head facing north, the sun appears to be circling clockwise.
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Old 05-16-2003, 08:15 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Its Up north, Down south, Back east and Out west. At least in my part of the united states. The Earth needs 4 axis' Then we wouldn't have the problem of ending up in the same location if we travel far enough east or west. Could you imagine how screwed up a compass would be if there were 4 magnetic poles?
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Old 05-16-2003, 08:40 AM   #12 (permalink)
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its cause anything else is just wrong and dumb. like cybermike said the greeks and romans tried doing it different and look what happened to them. their empires fell apart, their gods ceased to exist, and they became a pathetic shadow of their former glory.
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Old 05-29-2003, 04:59 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Since the poles switch all teh time soon enough south might be at the top.
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Old 05-29-2003, 05:09 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Or the majority of "us" consider "the south" inferior!!!
Ohhh, thems fightin' words!

I guess it's cause the South wasn't found until relatively late in the game, and the English/Portuguese/French considered Africa to be 'below' European standard... hence South
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Old 05-29-2003, 05:45 PM   #15 (permalink)
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if the world was upside down, we'd fall off.

i dont believe in gravity.

gravity sucks man.
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