Humorously, the term "orientation" comes from when Christian Europeans traditionally had Jerusalem - in the east ("orient") - at the top of the map. It wasn't u

Humorously, the term "orientation" comes from when Christian Europeans traditionally had Jerusalem - in the east ("orient") - at the top of the map. It wasn't until around the time of Mercator that they started putting North at the top. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160614-maps-have-north-at-the-top-but-it-couldve-been-different https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160614-maps-have-north-...