that map and the one in the SW Fact File are the same, with Tatooine at "the south", while in AOTC Kamino is "at the north side", south of the Richi Maze. You know Tatooine/Naboo etc. has to be close to eachother 'cause they got their faster then the others. So if Kamino is "in the north" and Coruscant is said to be the center of it all, Tatooine can't be "in the south"
I am not sure you have fully explained yourself there, yerss!
All you have set out are the following conditions:
1. Tatooine and Naboo have to be close
2. Kamino has to be to the north
3. Coruscant must be in the middle
That map contradicts none of those. So what is the problem? The only other necessity is that Geonosis has to be close to Tatooine but that is not much of a problem.
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Good:
You're probably thinking that there is no "south" in space, right? Well, actually, there is! Our own Milky Way Galaxy, and presumably also the galaxy that existed a long time ago and far, far away, are both spiral galaxies. This type of galaxy consists of a large flat disk of stars and gas with a central spheroidal hub. The disk may have vast spiral arms sweeping through it, though not all do (read about spiral galaxies in an article I wrote for Astronomy Magazine's website). The Sun orbits the center of our own Galaxy in the disk. To us, in the disk, the galaxy appears as a thin line, since we are seeing it edge-on (like in the picture shown here, which is a spiral galaxy much like our own seen edge-on). The center of the galaxy, toward the hub, appears as a roughly circular bulge.
This gives us a natural coordinate system! We can define the galactic longitude of, say, a star (or a planet of clones) as its position in the plane of the galaxy, with the direction to the center of the galaxy defined as 0 degrees longitude. Latitude is then defined as how far above or below the plane of the galaxy the object is. We pick a direction to be "above" the plane (since up and down are arbitrary in space) and call this "north". The other direction is of course "south". Astronomers actually use a galactic coordinate system today to map out objects; it's convenient for many types of observations.
So it's not Bad at all that Obi-Wan says the planet is south of the Rishi Maze. It's actually a perfectly good way to describe it!
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/movies/starwars_aotc_review.html
North and South are made up by the magnetic polar fields, there are stronger powers in the universe than those magnetic fields. Gravitation for instant. There are no North and South just as there are no ups and downs. The universe is just one huge mass off space.
But for all means let those you quoted tell me if the moon is to the north south, east or west of the earth.
There is also a difference for us earthlings to what stars we see, we have the northern and southern hemisphere.
So if those people talk about north and south in space remind me not to hitch a ride with them.
As I pointed out, yerss, that method only works with the galaxy seen on its side, as it specifies in your description, hence it does not work with the map of the SW Galaxy, but it still does not matter as you used quote marks, and Finti, in the sense used by yerssot's description there is a north and south in space.