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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7777337" data-attributes="member: 22779">Well, I dunno.  I've never seen an atlas, road map, military map, or, frankly any other real world map that didn't put north at the top of the map.  Granted it might not be exactly at the top, depending on the declination of the map, but, it's typically pretty darn close.You're saying in geology that it's done differently?  Ok, I'll buy that.  I'm gullible.  But, for the vast majority of everyone else on the planet, north is at the top of a map.  Heck, even electronic maps, like Google Maps does it unless you're traveling in which case, they spin the map in direction of travel, just like you would doing orienteering.Not so much pedantic as, well, adhering to the way maps have been made for the past thousand years or so in virtually every culture.</blockquote>