I've crafted a few maps and taken them out to far off locations and tried to create them. They all center on what appears to be the closest portal to my original spawn point instead of where I'm standing when I first use them. Haven't tested this in 14w08a yet.
Playing seed 001.
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So the arrow is pointing to where I'm standing, which is on top of my house where my crafting table is. It's also where I was standing when I first right clicked on the map. Note, the character location is not where I'm standing, and it's facing the wrong direction. Additionally, I listed this as a seperate issue, the yellow star is about where my original spawn point was, the red star is where my compass takes me. Yes, I zoomed the map out because It won't let me create maps centered anywhere but that point.
It looks to me like they're locked into a preset grid with no particular logic. The grid does NOT line up with world coordinates which is very irritating as I prefer to use the world zero coordinates (x=0 and z=0) as a reference point for everything. Previously I could cause the map to create in the right location but now it doesn't work. I wish there were a mod to return the original functionality.
Pretty Positive its supposed to be centered on the chunk your in when you create the map
From the wiki
"•A center, which is where the empty map was transformed into a map [by right clicking it]. The map center is fixed at the central point of the 8×8 block of chunks you are standing in when you right-click it."