Maps

[den]

South at the top. Take that, Northern Hemisphere.

Other maps including the Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion World Map projection.

Comments

[anisoptera.livejournal.com]

I gots one of them South at the top map. Present from an ex-pat Kiwi.

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Now I've got a map to put on Captain Keeshan's wall! :)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

hey yeah!

And with the Tombaugh being located at the South Lunar Pole, the map would show the world as the residents would see it.

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Yup.

I've been doing that actually. It took me a while to find a good shot of the globe centered on Australia. :)

[lady-anne.livejournal.com]

Totally cool - thank you.

When I'm driving I usually have a pretty good sense of direction - but - put me in a building (even my own home) and "north" is always whatever direction I happen to be facing.

I guess I take the idea of magnetic north too literally - I'm always attracted to whatever direction I'm headed.;)

Inverting a map makes a lot of sense - gravity would have the land masses "pulled down" over time.

All the best - The Lady, Anne

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I have an excellent sense of direction until I get to Europe, then I'm 180* out of whack. I expect I'd be the same in the US.

It's the sky. The sun is in the wrong place.

[tiado-ab.livejournal.com]

That's quite interesting, I never realized how much I can't recognize the contenents while looking at those maps.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

From memory Aus is only about 5% smaller than the main 48 states. But Alaska is almost as big as WA, so over-all the US is quite a bit larger than us.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I used to have the MacArthur corrected map. Two guesses where I got it. ;)

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Oooooooo fun!!

I just gave james_b a map from Nunavut called "Our View From Up Here", which has the north pole at the bottom, looking up towards the south.... I thought it was nifty, and he's appreciate it's nose thumbing at the 'northcentric' view the rest of the world seems to have.