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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It’s easy, the sun rises in the… oh wait no it sets in the… erm… so what time is it?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Opposite to the east.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It's easy. When you imagine south as a north being on the top then west is on the east side from it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yes. Maps always have up as north. So just hold a map in front of you, and forward direction is north. Easy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Worst case scenario, download a compass app for your phone, but watch out for scams that will require heavy network traffic

iPhone/appleWatch may have one already, but I don’t know about android

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

iOS has a built in compass app.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

So does Android. This phone is old and it's on the edge menu (Samsung).screenshot of compass face

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I feel like while your phone has battery, there are easier ways to navigate than a compass.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No data, no map.

GPS can give your coordinates, but that’s pointless unless you walk a bit and translate the direction.

Compass uses most of its power for the screen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Do you have a minute to talk about Openstreetmap? You can download the map before you head out, then navigate without data connection.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This requires foresight. Most people don't plan on getting lost.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I just use the app for navigation so I always download the map for the area I travel to before I go.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I used to do the same when i was too poor to afford data on my phone or when i go through areas with poor service.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

google also allows offline caching, but also needs to be set up ahead of time. AFAIK once you set a region to download, it will update that cache regularly.

I would expect this is a feature that most map apps would offer

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Quick shoutout for Trail Sense for Android. Designed to function offline, lots of cool navigation/basic tools I haven't used outside of the GPS and compass, reasonable permissions, etc. One of those "You don't know how useful it is until you don't have connectivity" things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Excellent! I tried a couple trail apps for iPhone without any luck - they didn’t have local trails or cost too much for how occasionally I’d use it. Lately I have been doing short local hikes on well marked trails, so it’s not really a need

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I have problems telling right from left. At least I'm the moment, if I take my time I can tell.

But I almost always know my cardinal directions

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you extend your thumb and first finger, the L shape that is the correct way around is on your left hand.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I know when I have time to think about it.

It's just when people say: 'go left here' or me throng to indicate direction in a split second that my change of getting it right reduced to 50%. My brain doesn't grok that left right isn't absolute but related to orientation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just remember that port is a 4 letter word and so is left. So left is port and right is starboard.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What helped me as a kid is imagine to write. That's my left hand and than I know which is which without thinking too consciously (in case you're right handed, it's the other way around obviously).

But interesting that you know absolute directions easily. That's a cultural thing actually. I think Australian Aborigines will say things like "my western foot hurts" because it's more intuitive for them that way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

If I think for it for s second I know, I'll think about my dominant hand too (although my dominant feet is on the opposite side so I don't have a clear dominant side).

Yeah the aboriginal method seems way more intuitive to me, yet it probably won't replace the left right system anytime soon :p

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

All roads lead to East New Westersouth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
  • N - front
  • S - back
  • E - right
  • W - left
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Or just ask them which is west and they can point you towards it? Your not a compass needle lol, what is that assumption.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (10 children)

The Sun rises in the East and sets in the west.

With East on your right and west on your left you would be facing north.

You can tell which side of the equator you are on by the way water swirls. Northern Hemisphere water drains clockwise. If water draining has no spin then you're on the equator.

Sometimes the moss on trees is enough of an indicator, as moss growing on only one side of a tree means no sunlight reaches it and the moss faces the direction opposite of the equator.

Join us next time for a lesson on Star Charts.

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