"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, 6 May 2020 21:17:54 UTC+1, Brian Gregory wrote:
Does one just look at the map that's available and any key that's with
the map and then one knows what's what?
Not sure what aspect of it would need to be taught?

That's part of what needs to be taught. It might be obvious to you and
me.

Without cheating and looking it up on Google, how many people know what
this symbol is?
https://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?...ay=179145&lm=0 -
the black symbol in the angle between the two motorways.

Its completely stupid to have maps with no table
of symbols or a page of symbols and to have to
memorise the obscure ones that are hardly ever
seen and to teach that in schools.

The paper maps do include a list of symbols. I wonder whether a modern one
would include all the new symbols such as this one.

The problem with online sites is that the map is "endless" rather than being
divided into 40x40 km sheets each with all the marginal stuff like scale,
instructions on how to work out a grid reference and what the symbols mean.
But web sites like Bing and Streetmap should contain a link to a page of
symbols.

The one I found is one that is probably noteworthy enough to merit a symbol,
and is a "thing" that is found more and more often nowadays.