Cardinal Direction

Each of the 4 main compass quadrants (N,E,S,W), contain 7 sub-regions. This tool can be used to convert a degree ranging from 0-360 to a correlated cardinal direction.

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Example of North Quadrant Cardinal Directions

See CardinalDirection for the full list.

• N – North
• NbE – North by East
• NNE – North Northeast
• NEbN – Northeast by North
• NE – Northeast
• NEbE – Northeast by East
• ENE – East Northeast
• EbN – East by North

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Install

npm install cardinal-direction

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Usage

const Compass = require("cardinal-direction");

cardinalFromDegree

Converts a compass degree value into its correlated cardinal value.

Param	Type	Required	Description
degree	number	yes	A number between 0 and 360.
subset	CardinalSubset	no	Restricts the return value to a subset of the possible cardinal directions. The default is Full. See CardinalSubset for more.

/*
 * Basic usage.
 * - returns "SW"
 */
Compass.cardinalFromDegree(221);

/*
 * Restricting results with subset.
 * - returns "W"
 */
Compass.cardinalFromDegree(221, Compass.CardinalSubset.Basic);

degreeFromCardinal

Converts a cardinal direction into its correlated degree value.

Param	Type	Required	Description
cardinal	CardinalDirection	yes	One of the possible cardinal directions. See CardinalDirection for more.

/*
 * These all return 90.
 */
Compass.degreeFromCardinal("E");
Compass.degreeFromCardinal(Compass.CardinalDirection["E"]);
Compass.degreeFromCardinal(Compass.CardinalDirection.E);
Compass.degreeFromCardinal(Compass.CardinalDirection[8]);
Compass.degreeFromCardinal(8);

cardinalConverter

Converts a cardinal value to either its abbreviation or full title.

Param	Type	Required	Description
cardinal	string/number	yes	One of the CardinalDirection enum member values, or its full title. See Cardinal Table for context.

Compass.cardinalConverter(3): // NEbN
Compass.cardinalConverter("NEbN"): // Northeast by North
Compass.cardinalConverter("Northeast by North"); // NEbN

CardinalSubset enum

This subset enum can be used to fine tune the return value of cardinalFromDegree. When used the specified degree will be pushed to the nearest accepted cardinal direction, based on your restriction.

Value	Description
Full	Enables all possible cardinal directions to be retuned. Default
Basic	Restricts the possible returned cardinals to N,E,S,W.
Ordinal	Extends Basic to include NE,SE,SW,NW,.
Intercardinal	Extends Ordinal to include NNE,ENE,ESE,SSE,SSW,WSW,WNW,NNW.

CardinalDirection enum

There are 32 cardinal directions on a compass. But this numeric enum is 0 indexed.

Compass.CardinalDirection[0]; // "N"
Compass.CardinalDirection["N"]; // 0
Compass.CardinalDirection.N; // 0

Cardinal Table

Integer	Abbreviation	Title
0	N	North
1	NbE	North by East
2	NNE	North Northeast
3	NEbN	Northeast by North
4	NE	Northeast
5	NEbE	Northeast by East
6	ENE	East Northeast
7	EbN	East by North
8	E	East
9	EbS	East by South
10	ESE	East Southeast
11	SEbE	Southeast by East
12	SE	Southeast
13	SEbS	Southeast by South
14	SSE	South Southeast
15	SbE	South by East
16	S	South
17	SbW	South by West
18	SSW	South Southwest
19	SWbS	Southwest by South
20	SW	Southwest
21	SWbW	Southwest by West
22	WSW	West Southwest
23	WbS	West by South
24	W	West
25	Wbs	West by North
26	WNW	West Northwest
27	NWbW	Northwest by West
28	NW	Northwest
29	NWbN	Northwest by North
30	NNW	North Northwest
31	NbW	North by West