The adopted set of 18 symbols features six replacement, four existing and eight completely new pictograms, including images representing convenience stores, tourist information and more. The symbols ...

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 new symbols will appear on tourists’ maps, but the locals will still see the original versions. After surveying upwards of 1,000 people from 92 countries, the Geospatial Information ...

A Japanese proposal to stop using swastikas to identify temples on tourist maps has sparked a backlash. Japan's official map-making body said foreigners might mistake it for a Nazi symbol, and ...

The symbol used to represent a temple on tourist maps in Japan could ... It comes after the GSI surveyed more than 1,000 people in over 90 countries to see whether the current map symbols were ...

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

Japan is looking to remove swastikas from its maps because tourists think they are ‘Nazi symbols’. The ancient symbol, marking temples on the Japanese maps, was used to denote religious ...

Symbols are often similar on different types of map. For example, blue symbols are used for buildings or tourist attractions . Footpaths are usually represented by dotted green lines.