The maps of A-M

[Kangxi]

I've been comparing the new map with the older version. Anyone know why the arrows pointing to Widdershins & Turnwise in the new map are opposite to those in the old one? (Or, indeed, why arrows pointing to the normal of the turning circle are used at all, since they can't indicate direction of movement.)

[Tonyblack]

Hello Kangxi and welcome to the site.

I don't have the new map, but I seem to remember that Widdeshins is anticlockwise - at least in Discworld terms.

[Jan Van Quirm]

Perhaps that's the DW variety of reversed polarity - reversed spin?

[Molokov]

Hello Kangxi and welcome to the site.

I don't have the new map, but I seem to remember that Widdeshins is anticlockwise - at least in Discworld terms.

Widdershins is anti-turnwise in Roundworld terms as well

[Dotsie]

On Roundworld widdershins is turnwise (or the opposite way to the motion of the Sun in the northern hemisphere). But it also described as anticlockwise.

[simmonds91]

I always thought the disc if A-M was to the right of Leshp moved anti-clockwise, like everyday clocks. --->

[Jan Van Quirm]

If you think of the Hub as the line of polarity of Roundworld then clock(turn)wise equates with moving west and widdershins/anti-clockwise with eastwards - this also matches the movement of the DW sun moving from rim to rim over the hub as the north/south equivalent... I think...

The Disc is a literal 2D map with the third spatial dimension provided by the spin so turnwise is the constant for clockwise, on the planetary movement rather than the sun