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Zachariah @lemmy.world

5mo ago

streetlamp post with cardinal directions

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That's actually a great idea.
- Until you sub contract installation and maintenance of the posts and suddenly they point the wrong way half the time
- 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.
  
  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.

until there is some work needed and they put it back wrong

That's the kind of streetlamp that la'mouse can get behind
- Aye, another Reddit refugee
  
  Oh you want a Lemmy reference? That's the kind of streetlamp that... Ahh.... Lenin...beans...get behind?

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

When Google Navigation tells you to "head North-East".
I am a fool who bought an Android phone without a magnetic compass.
- 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.
  
  Ah crap, it's noon
  
  So it's summer season. Was it supposed to be a bit to the North, or a bit to the south? Or a lot to the north? until when is it considered summer anyway? October? November? It's still pretty hot out there.
  The last time that happened, I was trying to hurry back home, before the rain started pouring. And guess what? I couldn't see the sun.

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?
- The east is labelling the east side of the post like always.
  
  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.
  
  "like always"???
  You're saying it like it's obvious, but it's a fair question.

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