I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there.

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• WereCat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Great. I’m laying in bed, and now I’m lost. Thanks.

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Looking North, West and East spell “we”.

  Sorted.

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  • FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Never Enter Stinky Washrooms

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But you have to memorize if that’s CW or CCW. I’d forget.

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• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Halosheep@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The water thing is a myth. Any body of water you can actively watch drain is influenced by the shape of the reservoir and direction the water is added to it.

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    • CorvidCawder@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What about the videos recorded in Ecuador, where the same reservoir is drained on both sides of the equator and the water spins in different directions?

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Hmm

      Looked it up and you might be right. But believing you at face value would also be the same fault that lead to this spread to this myth’s spread.

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• Phen@lemmy.eco.br ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I only started remembering which side west is (relative to north) when I started thinking of “the wild west” and then thinking of where the wild west was. Still can’t use it in the real world for anything though. At most if I’m at my own town I know approximately where north is, but anywhere else I’ll quickly lose the sense of which direction is which.

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  • Album@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’re not supposed to intrinsically have your sense of direction in a new place. Some people can do that but assuming you’re not paying full attention on your way to a new location it’s actually normal and expected to have to get your bearings which means taking a moment to orient yourself and figure out what direction is what. And then it’s easy to forget (let’s say you step into a store) until you build a sense of landmarks. Also the more dense a location the harder it is because it’s more complex.

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• xia@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  m.youtube.com/watch?v=KbI-PCrmHoM

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• Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  West is sunset…

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  • EtherWhack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    ‘Relatively’

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    • Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If you don’t specify the point of reference, I will use the world’s west as it’s conceived. if not, say “your left” or something.

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• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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

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  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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  • potpotato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    iOS has a built in compass app.

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    • nepenthes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • potpotato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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• DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  N - front S - back E - right W - left

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