I know it's on me, but I find myself mixing some of the cardinal point clues, a little compass on the maps would be a nice reminder about if NE is north and right or north and left xp

It's not helped by the fact that the directions given by the rod are actually wrong!

I used that rod which tells you the direction. It told me NNE, so I went over to the top right corner (NE). However, the actual distances said that it was over to the left (which is NW), and turned out to be lower than NW (which would actually be WNW (between West and North West) rather than NNW (between North and North West))

(the way I remember it, is "Never Eat Shredded Wheat" going clockwise from the top .... blame a primary school teacher for teaching me that!)