I'm sure the designers could come up with a good looking compass too.  I usually scroll out to the cloth map because it's easer to tell which way is north.

I do have the problem when a resource is destroyed and the message will say it's a goldmine in the northwest or something like that.  Ideally, the camera would scroll quickly to it, because the event usually has happened in an area of the map I'm not paying attention to.

I've seen one when browsing the game data but apparently it's not being used.

It's not a "functional" one but apparently an ornamentation because it includes some kind of banner, intended to show text.