The "start" markers do not represent all the main points of a compass, a couple are duplicated, so if they are crucial to understanding the arrangement of things, it's not a simple matter of just rearranging them or rotating them.
I tried rotating them to put them all in the same 10:00 o'clock position just to see what happens but... then I realized that doesn't work unless you know which wheel is the primary-orientation wheel. One can't just arbitrarily choose top-left, for example, and then rotate them all so the start markers match because their relationship to each other is different if you use the middle one as the start marker instead.
It's a lot of different possibilities, and it was late, so I didn't follow through (and unfortunately can't during the workday either).
But... it's something to think about....
Have the wheels been rotated? Are they supposed to line up? The "flows" out of the middle wheel (#5) are symmetric, and flow to all four surrounding, which means rotating that wheel doesn't change the overall orientation of the firehose-like "sprays", but it changes other things.
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If this is a map, it's very difficult to know the scale. Are the rota furlongs apart or many kilometers apart? Imagine if this were a journey from Naples to Rome, compared to a journey from the east part of Venice to the west part of Florence, or from Constance or Graz to Venice or Milano... would that have anything to do with the positions or rotation of the markers?
It's tempting to think of the orientation of the start markers as marks on a sundial, denoting a certain time of day, since a couple of them are very close to the same point, but if it were a long journey, the distance would seem to be more important than the time of day. If they are compass points, then duplication would not be unusual, since journeys often include going in the same direction from different start points.
I tried rotating them to put them all in the same 10:00 o'clock position just to see what happens but... then I realized that doesn't work unless you know which wheel is the primary-orientation wheel. One can't just arbitrarily choose top-left, for example, and then rotate them all so the start markers match because their relationship to each other is different if you use the middle one as the start marker instead.
It's a lot of different possibilities, and it was late, so I didn't follow through (and unfortunately can't during the workday either).
But... it's something to think about....
Have the wheels been rotated? Are they supposed to line up? The "flows" out of the middle wheel (#5) are symmetric, and flow to all four surrounding, which means rotating that wheel doesn't change the overall orientation of the firehose-like "sprays", but it changes other things.
...
If this is a map, it's very difficult to know the scale. Are the rota furlongs apart or many kilometers apart? Imagine if this were a journey from Naples to Rome, compared to a journey from the east part of Venice to the west part of Florence, or from Constance or Graz to Venice or Milano... would that have anything to do with the positions or rotation of the markers?
It's tempting to think of the orientation of the start markers as marks on a sundial, denoting a certain time of day, since a couple of them are very close to the same point, but if it were a long journey, the distance would seem to be more important than the time of day. If they are compass points, then duplication would not be unusual, since journeys often include going in the same direction from different start points.