For Americans, it’s easy to think that our position, at the top left of most maps, is the intrinsically preferable one. This clearly was not written by a geek.

For Americans, it’s easy to think that our position, at the top left of most maps, is the intrinsically preferable one. This clearly was not written by a geek. Obviously the top right is preferable, since it's the only region where both decimal latitude and longitude are positive.