My favorite argument. If you work with maps or blueprints, you've had it. And everyone has their preference and will let you know it.

Mrs. P. has a degree in architecture. She likes maps rolled so the image is on the outside. I'm a geologist, so I like them rolled the opposite way. Her way makes the roll curl down on a drafting table and my way keeps the image clean when rolled out on the ground. And yes, we have argued about it.

Had a mentor who would cut up a map and glue it to fabric so he could fold it without creasing it. Had another who would poke a hole in a map with a pin and make notes on the back where the hole was. Worked on a project once where our map was four feet wide and eighteen feet long.

It's all about how it is used. For field work, I cut maps so they fit in my field clipboard. Not a big fan of folding, but it too has it uses. One of my published maps is folded because it is a strip map and that is the only way to do it properly.

We used to laugh that all of the mines we were evaluating were located at the corners of USGS quadrangles so we would have to have four maps.

Your post reminded me of this clip from Twister: