• @DudeDudenson
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      513 months ago

      Until you sub contract installation and maintenance of the posts and suddenly they point the wrong way half the time

    • @Zachariah@lemmy.worldOP
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      113 months ago

      It was in a downtown area, so could see it assisting in finding your way among the buildings. But it was only this post and another (with an only the top part) about twelve feet away. I didn’t see any others.

      • Maeve
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        53 months ago

        Aww. Maybe it’s a budgeting thing, they put them in as old ones need replacement, or a test or something. I’d like to see this everywhere.

  • TheTechnician27
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    93 months ago

    inb4 one of these gets improperly installed and gives someone an existential crisis (still looks pretty and useful for the directionally challenged, though!)

  • @ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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    83 months ago

    When Google Navigation tells you to “head North-East”.

    I am a fool who bought an Android phone without a magnetic compass.

    • @Zahille7@lemmy.world
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      63 months ago

      I mean at that point just ask what time it is, and then pair that with the knowledge that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and boom. You have a general sense of direction.

  • @Kayana@ttrpg.network
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    33 months ago

    But is the letter facing the direction, or are you looking in the direction if you’re looking at the letter? So, is East behind the camera or in front of it?

      • @ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world
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        23 months ago

        but that’s not intuitive. when a compass says that the bearing is east, you are facing east. here, the onlooker is actually facing west when looking at east.

        if the street pole had a bunch of arrows sticking out towards the cardinal points, what you’re saying is obvious may truly have been obvious.

        but in this arrangement, the question put forth is a fair one and does not deserve derision.

        • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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          13 months ago

          The base is the same as a compass face though.

          The question might be fair but there is one obvious answer.