Boltar wrote:
Dave Newt wrote:

Michael Hoffman wrote:

I agree, this is nutty.

It's the most natural thing in the world, once you get used to it (as

I

did when I lived abroad).

It just seems awfully counter-intuitive the first times you come

across it.

Maps shouldn't be counter intuitive and have to get used to them.

I didn't say it WAS; I said it SEEMS TO BE at first.

Anyone
should be able to glance at them and read them in seconds. Otherwise
they're
useless. If you're in a car and using a map to find somewhere do you
orient
your A-Z depending on what direction you car is facing?

Often. (Though I don't have a car.)