Sunday, April 17, 2011

Windrose

A Windrose map is used to display the orientation of it's viewer in correlation to the four cardinal directions - north, east, south and west. The compass is comprised of 32 points (wind directions). Of these 32 wind directions, eight were named - Counterclockwise: Tramontana, Gregale (NE), Levanter (E), Sirocco (SE), Ostro (S), Libeccio (SW), Poniente (W), and Mistral (NW). 

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