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---Maps of Dante's Hell as illustration of top of map being preferred

Related maps that help illustrate and support the assertion that the top position on maps is a preferred position include several famous illustrations of Dante's "Hell" (e.g., Maps of hell by Bartokomeo, c.1420, and by Barry Moser, c.1980). Invariably in these and other celestial maps, the worst parts of hell are positioned at the bottom of the map.

--The West Wing

On the TV series The West Wing there was an episode featuring a fictional “Organization of Cartographers For Social Equality”. To start with they promote the use of Peters Projection maps in schools, but later on suggest upsidedown maps. In addition, they propose ending top/bottom attitudes by putting the northern hemisphere on the bottom of the map. C.J. protests that they can’t do that, “’cause it’s freaking me out.” --

The nascent International Society for Global Inversion believes that flipping iconic world maps everywhere would be a symbolic ceremony to help mankind break its old thought patterns, and act in a more ecological way.

Rupert’s Worldview has similar cartographic global justice goals

A Guide to Unusual Maps on the Web