People have Biases toward North-South and East-West Directions. When people give directions or explain where some geographical feature is placed relative to some other geographical feature they mostly use one of the four directions north, south, east and west. People tend to express a direction as for instance due south, when the correct direction should have been south-southwest. This reflects that people tend to relate things to each other by
the general directions east, west, north and south. South America is for instance often perceived as being due south of North America, even though a quick look at a map establishes that due south of North America is nothing but the pacific ocean. South America is located south-east of North America. Such biases might lead to misleading footprints when using for instance the phrase “200 km south of Moskow” for georeferencing a text if the intended location is in fact 200 km south-southwest of Moskow. People seem to have the same kind of biases towards right angles when navigating in space.