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Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: The Green Bean
Originally posted by: deepred98
European cartographers
same reason europe is in the center of most maps
It is? :s
Yeah. Of course it's logical to put it there, because the world's largest ocean is on the opposite side of the world, and it makes sense for that to be on the outside edges of the map.
There was an episode of the West Wing that dealt with this topic briefly, as well as the mercator projection vs other projections.
Are you serious? Mercator sucks, by the way.