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  • noun biology The ability of an animal to orientate itself and to navigate

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Examples

  • New "wayfinding" signs are now up in the downtown area.

    WCAV - HomePage - Headlines 2010

  • Comark provides both indoor and outdoor kiosk and digital signage solutions, suited for a range of applications, such as wayfinding, human resources, self-service ordering, selfservice check-in, surveys, directory services, ticketing, and product selection.

    Retail Solutions Online Products 2009

  • In 2012 itself, the Paralympic pictograms will have a "wayfinding" role, helping spectators find venues at Games-time as well as helping to transform London from an Olympic city to a Paralympic city.

    unknown title 2009

  • Comark provides both indoor and outdoor kiosk and digital signage solutions, suited for a range of applications, such as wayfinding, human resources, self-service ordering, selfservice check-in, surveys, directory services, ticketing, and product selection.

    Retail Solutions Online Products 2009

  • The Pacific Islanders developed their own means of open ocean navigation - or 'wayfinding'

    Australian Government Media Releases [All Portfolios] 2008

  • Pile and Thrift, seeking to develop an alternative approach to cultural cartography that recognizes the fluidity, ambiguity, and multiplicity of any subject, suggest replacing the notion of mapping with that of "wayfinding," which they describe as "the process of 'visiting in turn all, or most, of the positions one takes to constitute the field ... [covering] descriptively as much of the terrain as possible, exploring it on foot rather than looking down at it from an airplane.'"

    Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

  • I'd much rather exclude them altogether but make pedestrian and bicycle wayfinding much easier.

    Put The Grid Back Through Seattle Center « PubliCola 2010

  • Long a challenging environment for even New York's most alert cabbies, truckers and intrepid walkers and bikers, the transformation of Grand Army Plaza continues with a new lane for those coming off of Eastern Parkway, new landscaped pedestrian islands, a new traffic signal and better signage and wayfinding.

    Joel Epstein: Lessons From Brooklyn for the LADOT Joel Epstein 2011

  • Long a challenging environment for even New York's most alert cabbies, truckers and intrepid walkers and bikers, the transformation of Grand Army Plaza continues with a new lane for those coming off of Eastern Parkway, new landscaped pedestrian islands, a new traffic signal and better signage and wayfinding.

    Joel Epstein: Lessons From Brooklyn for the LADOT Joel Epstein 2011

  • Designers fight trench battles to persuade hospitals to use nomenclatures such as “Ear/Nose/Throat” rather than “Otolaryngology” when doing wayfinding systems and I bet more people would know what “Otolaryngology” means compared to “OpenID”.

    Does OpenID need to be hard? | FactoryCity 2009

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