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A small triangle or hut outline marking a hostel on a walking map.
Also known as: Hostel symbol, Hut symbol map
A small marker on a walking map showing a hostel. It is a good example of a symbol that is authoritative on one country's maps and meaningless on another's, because national mapping agencies each design their own legend.
Marks a youth hostel on Ordnance Survey leisure mapping.
United Kingdom · Contexts: Navigation, Maps
Is defined by the national mapping agency that publishes the map and by nobody else, so the same drawing carries no meaning on another country's mapping.
Contexts: Navigation, Maps
A small simplified building outline with a steeply pitched roof, drawn as a triangle over a short rectangle.