<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div class="Wj3C7c">| I am against east/west/north/south because there are a lot of<br>
| ways/areas/things which do not go straight ahead.<br>
<br>
</div></div>But they nearly all run nearer to one of those directions than they do<br>
to any of the others. If you want to say that a North East road is one<br>
way, you can call it North or East - there is no contradiction. Pick the<br>
one it is closest to, or either if the road is really exactly at 45 degrees.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div> </div></div>Umm... What happens if the road is not straight, but in fact winds around quite a bit? Then left and right are still unambiguous, but cardinal directions are definitely not.<br>
<br>Karl<br>