A riddle I thought of on the bus

Question

As the silhouette of a ball comes forth
Sprouts an arrow pointing North
To the left contains round borders
To the right lies four corners
The road is split between these three sections
You need me to make connections

What am I?

Answer 1

This looks like a

USB symbol: a ball with a North arrow, circle on the left and square four corners on the right.


_{This stands for the Universal Serial Bus so explains the title location.}

Though this answer is the same as, and has similar questions to below, so may be a duplicate.

I have three fingers. What is this?

Answer 2

I think the answer might be

A Playstation controller button pad

Note: though by the wording of the riddle, this would need to be reflected.

As the silhouette of a ball comes forth

The button pad has a circular outline, the silhouette of a ball.

Sprouts an arrow pointing North

Triangle

To the left contains round borders

Circle - although this is on the right

To the right lies four corners

Square - although this is on the left

The road is split between these three sections

Cross - looks like a road intersection with three different paths

You need me to make connections

You use the pad to play games and you can connect with people online.

Answer 3

I would say that you are a

Compass

Because

The compass is usually round, and circle is silhouette of a ball
The arrow of a compass is always pointing north.
Borders and corners are markings on the compass - Corners are North, West, South, East. Borders are degree markings on the compass.
To navigate using the compass you actually have to use all three in order to determine your position and to find out where are you going

Answer 4

Am I being too literalistic or is this a

Road Sign for a Roundabout?

As the silhouette of a ball comes forth

You see the roadsign with the basic round shape of a roundabout

Sprouts an arrow pointing North

The main road continues straight ahead, or "North" of the roundabout.

To the left contains round borders

There are no exits to the left.

To the right lies four corners

There are two minor exits to the right, which are squared "stumps" with two corners each.

The road is split between these three sections

The road splits into the three exits.

You need me to make connections

Without the roundabout you can't get off the main road you're on.

I can't find an exact match but:

Imagine this sign with Orton Centre pointing North and Orton Goldhay, Orton Malborne and the other major exit removed. Oh and the two "Stump" (minor) exits moved round to the right.

Answer 5

I suspect you're

Shadow

Since

As the silhouette of a ball comes forth
Sprouts an arrow pointing North
To the left contains round borders
To the right lies four corners
The road is split between these three sections
You need me to make connections

Shadow is connecting between sections :)