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but that's not intuitive. when a compass says that the bearing is east, you are facing east. here, the onlooker is actually facing west when looking at east.
if the street pole had a bunch of arrows sticking out towards the cardinal points, what you're saying is obvious may truly have been obvious.
but in this arrangement, the question put forth is a fair one and does not deserve derision.
The base is the same as a compass face though.
The question might be fair but there is one obvious answer.