Topic: Community and Society. ... East and south have previously been placed on top of the world map. South on top was conventional in early Islamic maps to depict the Muslim cultures north of Mecca.

Once the map is open, you can drag your finger to scroll around the world, and pinch to zoom in or out. There's no limit to how far you can go on the map — as long as people are using Instagram ...

“It was the letter of intent,” said Kenneth D. Colen, Sidney Colen's son, about the beginning of the local On Top of the World community in December 1975. Sidney Colen died in 2009, at age 90.

Inspired by a similar 10-year-old map by cartographer Paul Breding that resized countries based on their population size, college student Chase Mohrman decided to create his own updated version.