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> We actually publish maps which/that show the world the right way up.
With apologies to General Cornwallis!
I had one of those maps for years -- If I remember arightly it was the McCregor's Universal Corrective Map of the World. A nice Mercator projection with the South Pole at the top where it belongs, with Oz and NZ equidistant from the vertical center of the map. Mine was probably a meter plus wide and a meter high. It disappeared during an office move some years back.
I bought it in Sydney Airport on my way out of the country back in 1986 and it (along with my Akubra hat) was one of my souvenirs of a wonderful trip. The Akubra finally fell apart after almost 15 years of service. The only thing I had done to it to alter it was to replace the hatband with the skin of a rattler I ran over while cycling west of Denver.
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