The "normal" world map centered on Britain isn't weird or arbitrary, though, right? You have two big, major blocks of land: the Americas and Europe-Africa-Asia-Australia. You want the left and right edges of the map to be as much water as possible because them being land would be super hard to look at. There are only two places where the cut is almost all water: down the Pacific Ocean or down the Atlantic Ocean. That leaves you with either (1) our common map with Europe in the center, or (2) something like this one linked by another user in this thread: https://www.mapworld.com.au/products/world-hema-mega-map-pacific-centred-2320-x-1460mm-laminated-with-hang-rails
Don't think there's anything wrong with the second one, but it pushes more land towards the edges of the map since the Pacific is just a bigger Ocean than the Atlantic. That leaves us with the "normal" map as the most reasonable.
It's always interesting to see world maps with different perspectives, but the Europe-centric one isn't actually arbitrary, right?
capybarometer on May 14th, 2021 at 11:59 UTC »
Maps being centered on the equator, though, is not arbitrary
karaluuebru on May 14th, 2021 at 12:04 UTC »
I don't mind a map being centred on NZ's longitude, but the equator isn't arbitrary...
JacopoJPeterman on May 14th, 2021 at 15:22 UTC »
The "normal" world map centered on Britain isn't weird or arbitrary, though, right? You have two big, major blocks of land: the Americas and Europe-Africa-Asia-Australia. You want the left and right edges of the map to be as much water as possible because them being land would be super hard to look at. There are only two places where the cut is almost all water: down the Pacific Ocean or down the Atlantic Ocean. That leaves you with either (1) our common map with Europe in the center, or (2) something like this one linked by another user in this thread: https://www.mapworld.com.au/products/world-hema-mega-map-pacific-centred-2320-x-1460mm-laminated-with-hang-rails
Don't think there's anything wrong with the second one, but it pushes more land towards the edges of the map since the Pacific is just a bigger Ocean than the Atlantic. That leaves us with the "normal" map as the most reasonable.
It's always interesting to see world maps with different perspectives, but the Europe-centric one isn't actually arbitrary, right?