Why is the Makuri Islands map rotated compared to the real-world coordinates? What is the technical or game design reason for that? Here’s the same ride (Island Hopper) on Zwift vs Strava:
If I recall correctly, France is rotated as well.
I was again curious about this; was looking at the map of the new routes in France (the Hell of the North routes) compared to the real-world; and started again looking for information. Found this here my own thread from 3 years ago with no replies from Zwift…
It’s due to tectonic plate movement since the map was originally made. The updated version was taken by satellite.
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