Re: boustrophedon (was: Atlantis II)

Dan Jones wrote:
>My first map of Cendos had the western mountain range named "Mountains of
>Sunrise", but in Aredos obviously.>
That's no problem.  Obviously, they were named by the people who lived to
the west of them........

>The thing that really used to confuse me was latitude and longitude, I
could
>never tell which one went horizontal and which vertical until I had the
>mnemonic that Latin is written on a horizontal line, therefore latitude is
>horizontal. This was before I knew the meaning of the word "lateral", of
>course ;o).>

I've never quite understood the International Date Line.  Fortunately I've
crossed it an even number of times, so whatever days I gained/lost balance
out.  I never understood time zones, until I started drawing maps of planet
Cindu and got a book on cartography out of the library.  (I never should
have returned it, as the formulas and log tables were very useful, and not
easily remembered.  And now you have to buy expensive computer programs.)

With regard to "right"and "left" -- English doesn't help much, does it?
Typical conversation of me giving directions to a driver:
    Driver:  Do I turn left here?
    Me:  Right.

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