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[gfish]

Who else gets slightly annoyed when people don't use the correct map-relative direction (up->north, down->south, over->east/west) when talking about large-scale geography? From Seattle I can head up to Vancouver, down to Portland, or over to Spokane. Period.

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[stolen-tea.livejournal.com]

When I'm at sea level, "inland" is "up" sometimes.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

I've been told that there is at least an understanding of polar notation in Hawaii, where people refer to up/down and clockwise/counterclockwise for providing directions, since every island is a big mountain.
But with that said, nobody I've met there actually seems to *do* that. They just talk about doing it.

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

Well, I have heard folks there use the terms mauka and makai, which I believe mean towards the mountain and towards the sea, respectively, though I may have that flipped. It's been a while.