{"id":3562,"date":"2024-07-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/?p=3562"},"modified":"2024-07-10T10:48:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T08:48:26","slug":"the-north-is-not-always-at-the-top-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/mapas-curiosos\/el-norte-no-siempre-esta-arriba-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The North Is Not Always Up (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0652-El-norte-no-siempre-esta-arriba-2023.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0652-El-norte-no-siempre-esta-arriba-2023-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The North Is Not Always Up (2023)\" class=\"wp-image-3563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0652-El-norte-no-siempre-esta-arriba-2023-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0652-El-norte-no-siempre-esta-arriba-2023-12x12.jpg 12w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0652-El-norte-no-siempre-esta-arriba-2023-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0652-El-norte-no-siempre-esta-arriba-2023-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0652-El-norte-no-siempre-esta-arriba-2023-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0652-El-norte-no-siempre-esta-arriba-2023-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0652-El-norte-no-siempre-esta-arriba-2023-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0652-El-norte-no-siempre-esta-arriba-2023-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0652-El-norte-no-siempre-esta-arriba-2023.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This map was published <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MapsByAntonia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Antonia Blankenberg<\/a> in 2023 as part of the initiative&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartographerstale.com\/p\/30daymapchallenge-21st-century-cartographers\">#30DayMapChallenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author's illustration uses four different cartographic projections in which north is not located at the top of the maps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Berghaus projection: A projection that divides the globe into five north-south sections, which are arranged in a star shape. It appears in the logo of the Association of American Geographers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fuller projection or Dymaxion map: A projection that starts with an icosahedron, a polyhedron composed of 20 triangles, and develops it on a plane.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cube projection: A projection that starts from a cube, a polyhedron composed of six squares, and develops it on the plane.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bonne projection: An equivalent-area projection with a heart-shaped form that has historically been used to represent the size of continents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Here you can read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/newsletter.mapasmilhaud.com\/p\/por-que-esta-el-norte-arriba\" title=\"\">the historical convention that placed north at the top of maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find more information about the initiative here.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartographerstale.com\/p\/30daymapchallenge-21st-century-cartographers\">#30DayMapChallenge<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartographerstale.com\/p\/30daymapchallenge-21st-century-cartographers\">in what I wrote in the newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MapsByAntonia\/status\/1727268711642402825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">North is not always up<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This map was published by Antonia Blankenberg in 2023 as part of the #30DayMapChallenge initiative. The author's illustration uses four... <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow66TFDA:productID":"","iawp_total_views":68,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[11],"tags":[203,977,1205,1209,1208,1207,1206],"class_list":["post-3562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mapas-curiosos","tag-203","tag-30daymapchallenge","tag-antonia-blankenberg","tag-proyeccion-cubo","tag-proyeccion-de-berghaus","tag-proyeccion-de-bonne","tag-proyeccion-de-fuller"],"aioseo_notices":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@mapasmilhaud\/112760708249215133","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}