Lake

Synonyms / Other Terms Used

Pond, Lagoon

Category

Nature, Natural Attractions, Recreation, Tourism

Message / Function

For notice in general and to indicate the location of a lake or lagoon

	Source	Description
	Bolivia	Curved shape indicating lake, silhouette of two mountains above
	EJP	Curved shape indicating lake, contour of two hills in outline
	CNIS	Landscape with mountains and tree, several horizontal wavy lines indicating water
	Ecuador	Curved line, side view of tree, two horizontal wavy lines indicating water
	Puckung	Side view of four trees, clipped elliptic shape with two horizontal wavy lines
	Jalisco	Side view of flamingo, reed, two horizontal lines indicating water
	MDCT	Bird swimming in water shown as two wavy lines, reed on the right
	Argentina SSTN	Two horizontal wavy lines indicating water, two birds flying above
	DER	Two horizontal wavy lines indicating water
	Extremadura	Three horizontal wavy lines indicating water
	Aragón	Three horizontal wavy lines indicating water

Note: Some of the examples shown above were mirrored horizontally to contrast differences.

Discussion

Pictograms and symbols in our collection range from curved shapes indicating a lake, accompanied by mountains or hills or trees, views of birds plus reed and horizontal wavy lines to simple representations of water made up of several wavy lines. Wavy lines, pointed grass and reed also are used to represent the message Marsh, and some systems also include that message as part of the referent Lake/Lagoon. In some cases also the message River is included, but specific concepts for River can be found, too.

We could not find any test data concerning graphic symbols for Lake or Lagoon in our database, so we cannot present specific information concerning comprehensibility or some other parameters for one or several of the pictograms presented above.

Recommendations

Due to the fact that no data concerning comprehensibility of any pictogram variant is available, we recommend to collect or design more pictograms, and to conduct research using the Comprehensibility Estimation procedure for eliminating poor variants and identifying the best of the set available, followed by a Comprehension Test. These studies should deliver useful data for recommending one or several pictograms. Detailed information about the most frequent responses given in each of the response categories of the Comprehension Test should be provided to correctly judge comprehensibility and improve designs.

Tests of pictograms of referent Lake

No data from research or tests is available in our database.