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Semi-related, but the map surprised me. In my euro-centric world most maps I see have Europe at the center with the US at the left. Took me a second to realize
by Insanity 7y ago
Semi-related, but the map surprised me. In my euro-centric world most maps I see have Europe at the center with the US at the left. Took me a second to realize the US was actually on there. :)
- umanwizard 7y agoSimilarly, in the US, world maps also usually (or at least "often enough that it doesn't look weird to me") put the Americas in the center.
- mkl 7y agoSplitting down the Atlantic is normal in much of the world, possibly even the majority by population.
- hef19898 7y agoKind of like looking at British D-Day maps. They show France at the top, so upside down! But they are driving on the wrong side of the road, so...
- capableweb 7y agoYou have any examples of that? Feels like it could be a urban legend and searching for "British D-Day maps" on Google Images show all the maps with France being below UK.
- hef19898 7y agoNot at hand, but way back the day I saw some in old books covering D-Day. My uncle had one lying around where it was shown this way, no idea what the title was. But I remember it, I always turned it upside down to understand the map and then back again to read the text. Not sure if that was something that was down after the war or already during d-day, so.
- benibela 7y agoSemi-related, here is a map of Japan: U+1F5FE It is the only country that has a map in unicode afaik (and HN does not support unicode?)