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this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2025
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Fuck the Shetlanders as well I suppose 😂
A beautiful view all the same.
Based on the name of pretty much every town in England, the Scots language wasn't all that inventive once you got south of the border.
Why be inventive for englandshire?
Think of the possibilities for insults! "Oh thae? Thae's Cuntsborough. Thae's where the English cunts live."
I'm stealing Cuntsborough.
I wouldn't turn it upside down, North is still North.
But below the border it would just say, "here be fuds".
it's just a lil thing map nerds like to do to challenge the commonly used north at top and encourage us to give a second look to our landscapes
I know. I'm very used to antipodean maps that invert the hemispheres.
The Egyptians used to map the Nile that way too.
Just feels odd to do it in this case.
"Fraunce" is my favorite part of this map.
Lunnon
The perspective is interesting. Slightly 3D/parallaxed, and I think also Mercator (because why not?)
It's an interesting perspective but I'm not sure the Scots perspective would be putting south at the top?
Magnets still point north and the pole star is roughly north. Also it doesn't seem culturally right that the Scots would out England "above" them on a map?
The mercurator projection also benefits Scotland making it look larger although it's a marginal benefit within great Britain itself.
compasses point south too
Was going to say, directions are arbitrary and this map is not intended for navigation.
...this is a perspective projection: scotand's prominent in the foreground, ingland is below / beyond in the background...
(southeast is up)
Oops! All Mooth!
Today I learned about the Great Glen Fault.
Oh cool! An IRL map of Galar! /j