Why is North up?

📕 Buy the MAP MEN BOOK 'This Way Up - When Maps Go Wrong' https://lnk.to/mapmen Why is north up? Has north always been up? What used to be up before north was up? Does it matter if a direction other than north is up? And have you ever been on a year five geography trip where you got lost in the woods and wet yourself in front of Mr. Dugdale? SEE NEW EPISODES EARLY, AND BEHIND-THE-SCENES EXTRAS...   / mapmen   Written and presented by JAY FOREMAN   / jayforeman   MARK COOPER-JONES   / markcooperjones   Director/DOP JADE NAGI   / jade_nagi   Edited by JAY FOREMAN Runner ABBY TIMMS Additional camera JOE MURPHY VFX CHRIS WALKER https://www.artstation.com/zangrethor... Maps of Africa NIKOLAJ JESPER CYON https://www.cyon.se Upside down UK maps ALASDAIR RAE   / undertheraedar      / @automaticknowledge   Chinese read by YINGRUI WANG Master of the Feast by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/