narcosis219
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Cyan said:Top seems more important, so the people who made globes/world maps put their countries on the top. Then it became the norm.
Nope. Direction of magnetic field has nothing to do with it.
That makes me wonder: how did the directional NWSE and magnetic NS conventions come about and are they related?
Also, I had a suspicion that people wanted themselves on top lol.
So if we were to go out to a point in space where we could observe the Earth revolving around the sun in a CCW manner (us being on the normal to the plane that the orbit makes), would the north or south pole be on top (forget about the slight tilt)?