Legends on maps

[andypat]

That one is particualrly stupid!

The "platform", not Eddie, although come to think of it after the Scottish Sprints....

[Red Adder]

wayward - there are worse things to do with a legend than include a symbol not used on the map - principally getting the description of symbol wrong. Missing a symbol that is on the map from the legend (especially if its not one of the common ones) is also a bad error.

Also don't - as I once did for an offset litho map - use blue for the legend test - in fact any other colour than black is just not the most legible solution across the O population as a whole.

[Glucosamine]

While ISSOM out of bounds / not-to-be-crossed gets most of the limelight, I do find myself sometimes on an ISOM map wondering whether e.g. a given piece of open land is in or out of bounds or a river is to be regarded as uncrossable (when in reality it is a paddle). The legend is then not always helpful - but can still be better than nothing. And as for the double-tick 'uncrossable' fences which range from simple post-and-wire fences not to be crossed in a country park to structures which might challenge the PoWs in the Great Escape. Always frustrating to run around, only to discover later that others have crossed - and that it was legal so to do.

[Mrs H]

Yes it's a confusing one isn't it? Double tagged fences are uncrossable (not to be crossed) on ISSOM maps but merely 'high' on ISOM I think