What are the yellow bars on map locations in The Division?

It appears to be markers to that show up opposite the POI from the center of your screen (at least on the PC version.)

I took a short video of it, here, that you can see. Watch as I move the map around, the dots move around, so that they are always on the opposite side of the POI from the center of my screen. They don't appear to serve any purpose other than decorative.