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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Šiaulių miesto vizualinė informacija / Visual information of Šiauliai city

Turevičius, Martynas 18 January 2006 (has links)
SUMMARY Lithuania publishes increasingly more topical cartographical production (cartography – science of essence of maps and globes, their features, compiling, printing and usage). The majority of topical maps is various tourist material. Although its demand is large, the quality of conveying information seldom is irreproachable. When creating systems of signs little is thought about the future user of the map and conveying information in a way that map signs would be informative, quickly and correctly perceivable visually and well remembered. In Lithuania until now there were no researches to solve the problems of perceiving map signs (Geodezija ir kartografija. 2004 XXX T. No. 1. Giedre Beconyte, Jurga Spuraite. Vilnius University – Institute of Geodesy and Cartography). Therefore this project of conveying visual information focuses on the sign – representative (sign's medium). The symbol chosen for the pictogram (Lat. pictus – drawn, painted in paint + Gr. gramma – written sign, hyphen) is a cleat – horseshoe, which has an important meaning to travelers and tourists. This symbol was not chosen randomly but logically adapted to these pictograms as the horseshoe in society symbolizes success, happiness as well as travels and tours. (Today Utena is titled the capital of Eastern Higher Lithuania and has a golden coat of arms with a horseshoe – symbol of happiness http://eic.euro.lt/index.php?-704567929). The form of the symbol is laconic (Gr. lakonikos – clear... [to full text]

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