Denys Beauchemin wrote:
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>Just because we have been making maps with
>North at the top for a long time doesn't mean we should continue the
>practice. We would only inconvenience the map makers, the map users and
>other sundry billions of people, but we would have a standard.
>
As a matter of fact, the Arabs used to make their maps with South at the
top. I don't know whether they still do. Discovered this fascinating
snippet when I was in Spain a couple of years ago.
John D. Alleyn-Day
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