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An 8-point compass rose is a prominent feature in the logo of the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball club. Hong Kong Correctional Services's crest uses a four-pointed compass rose. The compass rose is used as the symbol of the worldwide Anglican Communion of churches. [22] A 16-point compass rose was IBM's logo for the System/360 product line.
A wind rose is a diagram used by meteorologists to give a succinct view of how wind speed and direction are typically distributed at a particular location. Historically, wind roses were predecessors of the compass rose (also known as a wind rose), found on nautical charts , as there was no differentiation between a cardinal direction and the ...
A rhumbline network (or windrose network) is a navigational aid consisting in lines drawn from multiple vertices in different directions forming a web-like mesh. They were featured on portolan charts and other early nautical charts used in the medieval age and age of exploration in marine navigation .
English: replica of compass rose in Pedro Reinel's nautical chart of 1504. It is the first known wind-rose to clearly represent the fleur-de-lys . The practise was adopted in other nautical charts and survived till today.
32-point compass rose. The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography.A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each separated by 90 degrees, and secondarily divided by four ordinal (intercardinal) directions—northeast, southeast, southwest, and ...
The lines in these networks are generated by compass observations to show lines of constant bearing. Though often called rhumbs, they are better called " windrose lines ": As cartographic historian Leo Bagrow states, "…the word [ loxodromic or rhumb chart ] is wrongly applied to the sea-charts of this period, since a loxodrome gives an ...
English: Depiction of an ancient Roman 24-wind compass rose, following Vitruvius (De architectura, c.15 BC). Eight principal winds (N, NE, E, etc.) are in black, sixteen non-principal winds are in red. For simplicity, this depiction assumes that winds are at 15-degree angles on a compass rose (although that is not implied in Vitruvius's text).
English: Depiction of an ancient Roman 12-wind compass rose, following the nomenclature of Seneca (c. 65 CE). Latin names are in red, corresponding Greek names in blue. For simplicity, this depiction assumes that winds are at 30-degree angles on a compass rose.