Were you taught to read a map?

[Richard Tobin]

Consider a digital sundial:

-- Richard

[ARW]

There was no internet then

[bert]

Yes indeed. That's what put an end to Memory Maps app. You can order old maps from OS. I have one for the village I grew up in from 1898.

[NY]

Without cheating and looking it up on Google, how many people know what this symbol is?

- the black symbol in the angle between the two motorways.

I happened to come across this symbol which I've never seen before, and it took several attempts to find an Ordnance Survey Legend web page that included it.

[Bob Eager]

Viewpoint?

[spuorgelgoog]

Even looking it up, I'm not completely sure, but I have a very poor short term visual memory.

Solar farm?

There's a guide to new symbols here

[The Natural Philosopher]

Perhaps more usefully

[Tim Streater]

Not much of a view from there, I venture to suggest. Motorways, railways, sewage works. Wonderful.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Looks like solar panels, but a strange place to put them

[Brian Gaff]

Yes it means danger, ridiculously long web link ahead....:-)

Brian

[Tim+]

I cheated. ;-)

Tim

[NY]

Sorry, Brian. I couldn't find a way to shorten it.

The icon is roughly square, with a diagonal line from bottom left to top right, dividing it into two halves. In the top left segment there is a symbol of sun with "rays" radiating from it. The bottom right segment is all black, like an arrow head pointing south-east.

It symbolises a solar farm - and indeed on the satellite photo on Google, there are rows of the solar panels covering a large area. It is situated between two motorways (M49 that goes over Severn Bridge, and M5 from Exeter to Birmingham) north west of Bristol, in a fairly insalubrious area of sewage works, industrial estates and trading estates, close to the Severn Estuary.

[NY]

You're allowed to cheat once you give up - that's what I did.

I like the suggestion that it's a viewpoint, because that was my first thought until I realised that there wouldn't be much that you'd want to see.

[Bob Eager]

snipped-for-privacy@news.>>>>> >>>>>> Without cheating and looking it up on Google, how many people know

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It's quite similar to the actual viewpoint symbol (which I knew already). The difference is subtle apart from the big black triangle, qwhich I assume was the way you'd want to 'view'!