More noteworthy than the technical matter of orientation, per se, is the history of explicitly using south-up map orientation as a political statement, that is, creating south-up oriented maps with the express rationale of reacting to the north-up oriented world maps that have dominated map publication during the modern age.
maybe because the projection is less deformed when you take only a region?
i navigate with north as my point of reference but i can see how an east up map can be as natural (with the sun moving from top to bottom, i can still function)
but looking at a map where sun moves from left to right, i’m like you—it’s bugging me
You know what, I think that’s it! Thank you :)