But, But, American Exceptionalism

[ashling]

George Takei: There's a map for that

[oldandhappy]

1. ha ha When I was in New Zealand I saw a map

of the world that had the Antarctic on top and the Arctic on the bottom and all countries shown 'up side down' in our point of view.

Yes, and we are influenced by the fact that this map shown here is how we usually see ourselves.

[ashling]

3. "Nowhere is where you think it is"

[sharp_stick]

2. Flat maps pretty much always cut something in half

or at least distort parts. Depending on what you want to find there are maps centered on pretty much everywhere.

[MisterP]

4. 98% of map projections center on *Africa*