Tamara, It's called a compass rose. Here's a website that tells of it's origins.
http://www.gisnet.com/notebook/comprose.html Heather Abbotsford, BC Where we are having unseasonable warm weather. At 09:59 PM 28/09/2003 -0400, Tamara P. Duvall wrote: >Gentle Spiders, > >I need help... > >What's the English term -- *is* there an English term? -- for the >"do-dad" that used to show up on old maps? It looks like what one sees >on a compass: a convergence of rhombuses (rhombi?), usually 8, >sometimes 16, but at least 4, each pointing to a different direction. > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
