(October 25, 2017 at 6:37 am)ignoramus Wrote: That's because we're the land down under... You guys are really the ones upside down.
It's a bit irrelevant... and arbitrary.
I just got used to seeing maps with the north side up.
But, on the grand scheme of things, looking from the outside of our solar system, why would you pick one pole of the planet for up rather than the other?
At best, you could use some physics consideration connected to the planetary movement, where, if you look at it from the "top", you should see the planets going counter-clockwise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-hand_rule
If that top aligns with what we call North, then... so be it!
That does happen for Earth's Rotation.