Jody Hughes‘Down under’ doesn’t seem like a good* way of referring to places in the southern hemisphere. Does it persist because (esp) Australians use it themselves?
* as in kind, neutral, fair
Proposal: rotate all maps 90°. Because the earth’s rotation would then be vertical, up and down (and top and bottom) in map terms would no longer define a ‘right way up’.
Maps of the solar system rotated also, laid out like a bicycle wheel.