Subjects viewed projected slides of a downtown city area and attempted
to find on a map the location at which they would be standing to see
each view. Plan and oblique maps were used. As expected, performance u
sing the plan map was significantly better when the map was used in al
ignment with the view than when it was misaligned. This issue is more
complex with the oblique map, because S often has to choose between us
ing the map in alignment with the view and using the map in its uprigh
t orientation. Performance was significantly better when the map was u
sed in map-view alignment. However, Ss preferred to use the map in an
upright-but-misaligned orientation rather than a non-upright-but-align
ed orientation, despite the fact that their performance was much worse
in the former case.