The one thing that planners seem to completely miss when creating “wayfinding” (I hate that word) signs, is that the most important function is to identify where one is. Street signs do this at every.single.intersection. They tell you the street you are on and the cross street. Trail signs should do exactly the same thing: every intersection needs to identify the trail one is on and the cross trail/street. This makes direction giving and navigation way, way easier. All the other “wayfinding,” like arrows pointing to stuff, is nice. But just give me a complete system of identifiers at every intersection and that will go further to improving the signage system than anything else.
http://www.steveoffutt.com/2009/06/rethinking-trail-signage.html
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