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human
is there a reason our map is the direction it is?

i saw a pic of a map of florida that was upside down to help tourists or something. i started to wonder if there is any reason that north america is on the top of the map and south america is below it. is there a scientific reason or did they just have to pick a direction?
gpt
North being up is simply a product of Greek and Roman cartography revival during the Renassaince in  Europe.  Many maps used to be East is up as it was named Orient and therefore used to 'orient' the map.  But North=up is completely arbitrary, we are just in space, and space does not have an 'up'.