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.

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 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.

Now, ahead of several international sporting events, Japan is dropping the use of a symbol closely resembling a swastika-- and other confusing images on maps -- for tourists following complaints ...