Another fairly counter-intuitive map-related thing is that Edinburgh is further west than Bristol, and roughly on the same longitude as Cardiff. There's no rea

Another fairly counter-intuitive map-related thing is that Edinburgh is further west than Bristol, and roughly on the same longitude as Cardiff. There's no real advanced math or optical illusion going on here, it's pretty obvious when you look at the map. It's just that our minds just make a simplistic "it's on the east coast, and therefore further east than things on the west coast"-shortcut. It works most of the time, except when it doesn't.