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But you completely discard the very concept of direction. And look at poor New Zealand.
I don't think so, I think it accurately portrays what North is on our globe. Magnetic North is in the Arctic. By displaying the Earth this way, we're seeing a map that's oriented to the North.
The issue with New Zealand goes away with tessellation. This is from Wikipedia, I think that we should be tessellating around the the first part of the map instead but it gets the point across
What a trippy representation of the world! I love it!
This is a very interesting map to contemplate but entirely useless to actually orient oneself by. Which direction do you sail from Africa to get to upside down Africa?