It is always oriented with north up on the map.
ALL MAPS are oriented that way....
Unless you turn your monitor upside down.....
North is north, one team start north on that map, and one south.
so if every player turn left from start point and noone go center.
all players on one team go east, and all players on the other team go west.
This is going to be extremly confusing to a lot of players when we get same faction in Alderaan.....
Then some times you will start playing where normaly the other faction starts, and when you turn left, you go the oposite direction of the one you normaly do.
ofc, the same side of east/west will still have grass/snow, but the orientation is oposite, so it will confuse, but lucky us, east and west on the minimap stay the same.