A few of us were talking on the mine the other night and the consensus was: Compasses which point to spawn are not much use how we play but compasses which point North would be kinda handy. Apparently it's an option in bukkit. If no one strongly disagrees, could you flick that on?
He's talking about /compass which is either a core server or bukkit command. It's currently on the server but returns a permissions error.
Since we've got the information with /getpos I don't think we really need /compass as well, but if it doesn't take you long to do then it'll stop Lucy whining so might as well do it.
I never use getpos because... I can just look where the sun is or whatever. Or if I'm underground I'll press f3.
This is a different thing, this is an in-game thing. It's much easier to glance as the compass in my hotbar than to open the console and type a command. More immediate and physical, too.