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What problems would arise from an east up map?
Not asking of political problems, but problems of accuracy. Could a map where East is up be as accurate as a North up or a South up map?
One thing I can think of is the Arctic is in the North, that is the Geographical north pole, everywhere from there is south, if you got on the equator and kept going geographically east, there would never be an east pole, you could always go more east. I think it would cause problems similar to the distortion of modern day maps, and I'm just wondering whether it would be worse than North or South is up.
2 Answers
- Anonymous6 years ago
Orienting maps to the North is merely a convention. Medieval European maps had East at the top.
It makes no difference to the accuracy.
- SumLv 76 years ago
The world spins east to west - sun is seen first in the east, later in the west. So the present map is set up to follow this reality.
So...... hadn't thought of it before..... the map reader could just adjust to this. Can't think of any logical or mathematical problems.
