v1.16.0 — selectable compass needle

The solid pointer was near enough symmetrical that nothing said which end was the source and which the destination — the reason the direction read ambiguously in the first place.

Two shapes are now available, on the wind card and the weather card's inline compass:

• arrow (default) — a hollow ring at the upwind end, a shaft, and a solid head downwind. The two ends are different kinds of object, which is what keeps it readable at the weather card's 72px compass.
• classic — the original solid pointer.

Pick either from the Compass needle dropdown in the card editor, or set needle: classic in YAML. The option only appears on the two cards that actually draw a compass.

Two further candidates were drawn and rejected: a meteorological wind barb, whose barbs collapse into a scribble at 72px, and a fletched dart, whose tail feathers start to read as a second arrowhead pointing the wrong way — the exact confusion this is meant to remove.