Windmill

Synonyms / Other Terms Used

Historic Windmill

Category

Tourism, Heritage Attractions, Cultural Attractions, History, Historical Attractions

Message / Function

For notice in general and to indicate the location of a windmill

	Source	Description
	IconPai	Frontal view of windmill with door plus arcs indicating movement
	BS 8501:2002	Frontal view of windmill with door and other details, building in outline
	Dutchicon	Frontal view of windmill with door
	Québec	Frontal view of windmill with door
	BTA 1989	Frontal view of windmill with door, building in outline
	Kapitzki	Frontal view of windmill, building in outline
	freizeitkarte osm.de	Frontal view of windmill
	Ordnance Survey	Frontal view of windmill in outline

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

Discussion

Pictograms found generally show a frontal view of a windmill, sometimes in combination with a door or some other elements. Disregarding the more abstract map symbols one could identify this as the visual stereotype to indicate the location of a windmill. Other variations of existing pictograms mostly focus on the rendering of the windmill sails.

In our research we did not discover any test data on comprehensibility of pictograms used to indicate the location of a windmill, but we have the impression that most variants could be well comprehensible.

Recommendations

Due to the fact that no data concerning comprehensibility of any pictogram variant is available, we recommend to collect 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 Windmill

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