I like the new maps, however I think it's just going to confuse people. People are going to orient themselves based on the park's entrance...which is generally the bottom of the map. Making the map more geographically correct isn't really an improvement.
I understand what you are saying, but, if a guest isn't smart enough to turn the map so that the entrance is at that bottom...well, there isn't much hope it's going to help them anyway.
How much dumber are we going to make this country. It is getting ridiculous. It's a piece of paper...turn the damn thing. Or issue everyone a compass. 
I understand what you are saying, but, if a guest isn't smart enough to turn the map so that the entrance is at that bottom...well, there isn't much hope it's going to help them anyway.
I don't see where you do now, from the pictures I saw of it. It appears to me that they oriented it with the location of the parking lot more than anything else.
The ones that I think you posted, maybe not you, don't remember, but they showed Epcot to be set up with the entrance to the bottom of the map and if nothing else Epcot is the exact opposite of MK yet they were close to being the same direction. I'm working from memory here, but, even if they didn't it still is not a big deal. You follow a map the same way regardless of what the orientation is. You look at where you are and where you are going and you go that way.
As just mentioned, its for consistency with mobile location services as part of MyDisneyExperience.
I'm just going to leave this here
I'm sorry, but I have to say that we have done enough dumbing down of people. If they cannot figure out how to turn a map around and orient themselves perhaps we shouldn't care if they get lost. You know, survival of the fittest and all. Mankind became what it is by people being able to deal with North vs relative. That's how they sailed the seas and found new lands and developed civilization. I don't believe that they had GPS back then. So our uneducated ancestors are smarter then we are? I'm starting to think so!The site has a map archive here.. the two parks are not the same on the map.. because they aren't the same on the earth
North vs relative is a confusing factor for people.. it's why virtually every navigation program has the ability to toggle the mode. It is confusing for people when they don't have a common reference point. They say 'hey look, this is to my left on the map'.. so they go left. But in reality when the map is drawn in true north, left may be right, etc. People have a better notion of 'where I've come in...' vs 'where is truth north' or 'what direction am I really facing on this map'.
Rugged individualism vs entitlement mentality.
It could be argued that designing a park map so that it needs to be turned around and read upside-down in order to use it is kind of dumb. Nobody cares what direction they must head to get to ToT. They just want to know where to turn.
