To represent various places on Google Maps, Google users use different icons and symbols to help users identify. Currently, Google uses more than 100 symbols, which is what each symbol means. 1.

Map symbols can include letters, coloured areas, pictures or lines. These symbols can be used to show the location of different features such as roads, viewpoints, bus stations, train stations ...

Secret Soviet Posters Demystify Map Symbols. These posters, part of a massive military program, illustrated how to map different types of buildings, bridges, and even trees in intricate detail.

Existing OS maps already include more details than many people realise. For example, they don’t just indicate the location of a church, the symbols used specify whether the building has a pointy ...

Six symbols will be replaced, including one the represent a police station, now to be denoted by a saluting officer. (Geospatial Information Authority of Japan) Another confusing symbol is an X.

The symbol used to represent a temple on tourist maps in ... which comes amid preparations for hosting the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, the GSI is planning to use 18 symbols just for foreign-language maps.

To represent various places on Google Maps, Google users use different icons and symbols to help users identify. Currently, Google uses more than 100 symbols, which is what each symbol means. 1.