Get a comprehensive overview of Google Maps symbols and icons, their meanings, and how to use them effectively in this ultimate guide for beginners.

Learn about essential map skills including how to work out direction, how to show height on a map and what map symbols are.

Crusade map modifiers and bonuses Some nodes have a little ribbon below them. These ribbons and their symbols represent a modifier to that part of the Crusade.

The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) has released a set of new standard symbols for foreign-language maps after criticism that some of its current pictograms are hard to understand ...

The latest update of the Pew Research Center’s regular News IQ quiz uses a set of 13 pictures, maps, graphs and symbols to test knowledge of current affairs. (To take the quiz yourself before reading ...

Some say we should change symbols for Japanese-language maps at this opportunity, while others say the traditional symbols should stay. Either way, it will take a while before any changes are made, as ...

It's half a century since the BBC introduced new weather symbols in its forecasts. Darren Bett looks back at what has changed since and what has stayed the same.

Get a comprehensive overview of Google Maps symbols and icons, their meanings, and how to use them effectively in this ultimate guide for beginners.