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emulatedmedia
4 months ago
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This map is not upside down
As someone from the Southern Hemisphere, the article's point falls flat. There's more land area in the top so it makes it easier to look at it
boringg
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You lose a lot of the details of the northern hemisphere when its compressed downwards in that map.
hughes
4 months ago
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That seems to be due to the pseudocylindrical projection, not the rotation of the map.
sltkr
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Not just land area; ~90% of the world population lives on the northern hemisphere, so it's more important in that sense, political and historical considerations aside.
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