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>Maybe Google can also flip the globe "upside-down" for all users "below" the equator.

I must be the only weirdo who wants the opposite: equator up. South-up in the Northern hemisphere and north-up in the Southern hemisphere.

Why? Because I want the Sun at the top of the screen (or more accurately, the sunny side of buildings/hills/anything).

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Then you'd have to special-case maps that include the equator itself.

Indeed, but this is no different from "north up in Northern hemisphere / south-up in Southern hemisphere" proposed above. Since we're talking interactive maps, you can probably just go by the center point (barycenter) of the viewport.

W/r/t Sun angles, things are pretty weird anywhere between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.

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