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(Important Note: I have only uploaded the glyphs I
have used in practice sentences and sample constructions. Therefore, not every
glyph indicated on these "source" pages is available on my website at
the moment. Instead, you'll probably see a lot of these little guys,
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One of the the reason I started thinking about this project is that my hobby is cartography, so I have a long history of trying to cram complex information into simple visuals. Fortunately, I haven't had to invent too many symbols from scratch because centuries of cartography have given us a lot of well-established icons.
| airport | |
| battlefield | |
| border | |
| bridge | |
| camp | |
| capital | |
| church | |
| highway | |
| marina, port | |
| meadow | |
| mill | |
| mine | |
| ruins | |
| school | |
| scale | |
| spot | |
| swamp |
Both the World Book and the Encyclopedia Amercana use similar symbols to indicate economic activities on state maps.
| corn | |
| cotton | |
| mining | |
| oil | |
| poultry | |
| timber |
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Last updated December 2003
Copyright © 2003 Matthew White