Google translate of the official sign definition:
"sign 718 "Sight" refers to the location of tourist objects (sights of interest to tourists, heritage conservation, nature conservation or other objects);"
Ah, the Saint Hannes cross, or sankthanskors in Sweden, or hannunvaakuna in Finland. It's not so much related to campgrounds, but to mark sightseeing spots in general.
No, it's used for "ancient monument", fornminne. It might be a early modern ruin or something that isn't ancient in some scientific sense but still is a place of historical or archaeological interest, while properly old remains, at least pre-reformatory ones, i.e. older than early 1500s, are often marked with a futhark 'r'/'ᚱ'.
Never used MacDraw, but I remember installing and using ClarisWorks in middle/high school, I never did actual programming at that age, but I loved playing around with the Mac's word processing, drawing, painting programs, making little art layouts, outlines for class notes, stuff that that.
Also known as the looped square (commonly used as the place of interest sign):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looped_square
Saw one in Sweden a few months back. Had to snap a photo: https://imgur.com/a/RAseomC
This road sign sign means castle or other point of historic interest in Sweden.
Campgrounds have a normal descriptive “tent” symbol road sign in Sweden https://korkortonline.se/en/theory/road-signs/direction-sign...
The sign is also used in Estonia.
Officially defined in https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/126112024009?leiaKehtiv -> https://www.riigiteataja.ee/aktilisa/1261/1202/4009/MKM_2901... -> sign no 718.
Google translate of the official sign definition: "sign 718 "Sight" refers to the location of tourist objects (sights of interest to tourists, heritage conservation, nature conservation or other objects);"
I've definitely seem them in Norway as well.
I'm so surprised the button comes from that.
Does anyone what the "international symbol dictionary" Susan Kare used was?
(This isn't the title)
Previously:
2013 (111 points, 49 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5988557
2011 (177 points, 22 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2643611
Ah, the Saint Hannes cross, or sankthanskors in Sweden, or hannunvaakuna in Finland. It's not so much related to campgrounds, but to mark sightseeing spots in general.
No, it's used for "ancient monument", fornminne. It might be a early modern ruin or something that isn't ancient in some scientific sense but still is a place of historical or archaeological interest, while properly old remains, at least pre-reformatory ones, i.e. older than early 1500s, are often marked with a futhark 'r'/'ᚱ'.
The same sign is used in Finland. I was puzzled why Apple computers used it but I thought it was just a coincidence...!
Norway too.
Kare really is a genius isn't she?
Never used MacDraw, but I remember installing and using ClarisWorks in middle/high school, I never did actual programming at that age, but I loved playing around with the Mac's word processing, drawing, painting programs, making little art layouts, outlines for class notes, stuff that that.
Sadly, programming wasn't really feasible on the Mac per se due to Bill Gates' manipulations:
https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html
Eventually we got HyperCard:
https://www.folklore.org/Joining_Apple_Computer.html
Wow, somehow I had never heard the sad story of MacBasic. It's such a perfect example of why people don't trust Microsoft.