This actually took a while to grasp the concept of. Where I'm living (so far from the coast that it might as well be landlocked) it took a while of eyeballing on a map, but I did find one angle where it's not kinda common sense where I would land. I suppose this is a lot more fun if you live near the coast and the answer is not completely obvious to anyone who knows the neighboring countries.
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#42Neat! I think I found a bug though? I'm in Southern Germany, and for some direction south of me it showed me Italy, which doesn't border Germany, I think
edit: As a wild guess, it might have something to do with scanning resolution? Austria's western "arm" is only about 40 kms across
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#43I suppose the heading error from the compass is so large there is little reason to use the real geodesic (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00190-012-0578-z) as opposed to the great circle
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#45AI icon might throw people off but its a good concept i like it