<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 at 16:02, Jan Michel <<a href="mailto:jan@mueschelsoft.de">jan@mueschelsoft.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
I would stay with information=guidepost for those.<br></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">That is fine if the only meaning you wish to convey is that there <br></div><div class="gmail_quote">is something which indicates the path of the route. But there</div><div class="gmail_quote">are those, like me, who think the physical appearance is</div><div class="gmail_quote">important. If the map tells me I should expect to see a guidepost</div><div class="gmail_quote">at a particular point, I am looking for one of these</div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerpost">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerpost</a></div><div class="gmail_quote">If I am not close enough to read the lettering on a sign and it</div><div class="gmail_quote">is inconvenient for me to get closer, I may not realize that</div><div class="gmail_quote">what is marked a guidepost on the map is actually the</div><div class="gmail_quote">sign I'm looking at.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">This might be less of a problem were it not for the way some cartos</div><div class="gmail_quote">render guideposts, which is a stylized guidepost. Using</div><div class="gmail_quote">a information=guidepost for a sign is misleading and, to my</div><div class="gmail_quote">mind, downright perverse. This is pounding a square peg</div><div class="gmail_quote">into a round hole on the basis that pegs go into holes.</div><div class="gmail_quote">It's on a par with mapping motorways as footpaths because</div><div class="gmail_quote">they're both ways of getting from A to B.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">-- <br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Paul</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div>