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		boringg 88 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: This map is not upside down You lose a lot of the details of the northern hemisphere when its compressed downwards in that map.

hughes 88 days ago [–]

That seems to be due to the pseudocylindrical projection, not the rotation of the map.

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