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Re:StreetLearn: Learning to navigate in cities without a map by madcaptenor on Thursday June 28, 2018 @09:23AM (#17416618)
Satellite dishes point south in the northern hemisphere, right? Since they orbit over the equator.

I've never found this practically useful, because the one city where I've wandered a lot and saw a lot of satellite dishes is Philadelphia, which has a grid layout. But I do recall noticing it.

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Re:StreetLearn: Learning to navigate in cities without a map by JorgeGT on Thursday June 28, 2018 @09:50AM (#17416802)
Yes, of course! Sorry for that. Being European I sometimes envy not only those neat grid layouts, but also the numbered streets, because from the numbering you can infer the position of the target. But "Saint Joseph's street" could be at the next corner or on the other side of town, you cannot know...
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