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by rbg246 2097 days ago
I've noticed a lot printing it with UK /Europe at the centre I guess it depends on what sphere of influence you live in.

Now there's a map printing shop idea, centering the map on any country you choose.

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Centring on GMT is conventional and probably makes more sense than anywhere else. Australians may beg to differ though:

http://img.memecdn.com/australian-world-map_o_1081710.jpg

(I quite like that map, actually.)

I love it as well so interesting to see the world 'upside down',ales everything so unrecognisable.

But GMT is still Eurocentric and unimportant from the perspective of an individual looking at a map, I do wonder if that will ever change?

It still dilates the northern hemisphere and squashes the southern hemisphere though.