Google Maps, Google’s popular geolocation application ... if we expand this information window, the ‘Z’ symbol will appear. But what does this icon mean? The ‘Z’ symbol refers to ...

Samuel Parson's 1624 map of Dringhouses is one of the oldest in York Archive's collection. The national mapping agency asked people to suggest useful new symbols, like farm shops and stiles.

Constructing these symbols on an odd-numbered pixel grid means that they can be centered both horizontally and vertically. The icon names will be lower camel case. If the icon name starts with a ...