...for a map with South at the top.
https://loja.ibge.gov.br/mapa-mundi-inv ... -cm-a.html
is an URL on the IBGE site for this Brazilian map that's made the news.
Eckert III Projection In Use
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If you ever wanted confirmation of how inflexible the typical person’s thinking is, show them a south-up map. It’s puzzling to how exotic this seems to a lot of people. The responses on the Service Formerly Known As Twitter can only be described as a meltdown, according to reports. (I don’t patronize that thing.)
— daan
— daan
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It's been known for a long time that something as simple as turning a map upside down can have a weirdly strong effect on people's perception. Even understanding the logic and science behind it, it still throws me for a loop when I see one.
One thing that I've seen commented on is that south-up maps look "emptier", even though there's exactly the same amount of land versus ocean, because people naturally tend to look at things from above, so moving Eurasia out of focus and the Pacific Ocean into focus makes it look as if there's less land. Using an equal-area projection won't help with this bias!
One thing that I've seen commented on is that south-up maps look "emptier", even though there's exactly the same amount of land versus ocean, because people naturally tend to look at things from above, so moving Eurasia out of focus and the Pacific Ocean into focus makes it look as if there's less land. Using an equal-area projection won't help with this bias!