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The Barry Wayfinding project is a scheme to install pedestrian map signs and fingerposts across the town centre areas of Barry, including Barry Island. The aim of the project is to show residents and visitors easy routes with walking distances, to encourage more people to walk to their destinations and explore Barry on foot. Map signs will include relevant details of crossing points and steps to ensure wheelchair users can also be confident to use the wayfinding system.
We have now reached the stage of a finalised location plan, detailed designs for the signage products, and a prototype sign (a 'connector') installed on Barry Island. Three sign types have been developed:
Directional (like a fingerpost with headline directions)
Connector (with a narrow route map)
Explorer (with a large overview map)
THANK YOU to everyone who came to the consultation event on May 4th. Following that event, where we had some great feedback and invaluable conversations, we have made some changes and design developments.
Locations of signs
We have made a few changes to the location plan, i.e. where all the signs, and which type of sign, will be placed.
Information and graphic approach
We have made some changes to the layout of information, adding more information and labels for areas and improving how we detail green spaces.
We have added some of, but not all, the additional detail that you told us about. Adding some things would mean we would have to include everything in that category, and that could make the map too busy or become outdated quickly as things change. (A spreadsheet of our rationale for what categories we are including on the on-street map signs is available on request.)
We have tweaked the design of the tabs and made more use of pictograms.
On the right there are pdf documents you can click on to view the Prototype sign which has now been installed on Barry Island; the text for all the 'tabs' info boxes; and more examples of Explorer and Connector type map signs. Below is an image of all the pictograms that have been designed for the map.
The Barry Wayfinding project is a scheme to install pedestrian map signs and fingerposts across the town centre areas of Barry, including Barry Island. The aim of the project is to show residents and visitors easy routes with walking distances, to encourage more people to walk to their destinations and explore Barry on foot. Map signs will include relevant details of crossing points and steps to ensure wheelchair users can also be confident to use the wayfinding system.
We have now reached the stage of a finalised location plan, detailed designs for the signage products, and a prototype sign (a 'connector') installed on Barry Island. Three sign types have been developed:
Directional (like a fingerpost with headline directions)
Connector (with a narrow route map)
Explorer (with a large overview map)
THANK YOU to everyone who came to the consultation event on May 4th. Following that event, where we had some great feedback and invaluable conversations, we have made some changes and design developments.
Locations of signs
We have made a few changes to the location plan, i.e. where all the signs, and which type of sign, will be placed.
Information and graphic approach
We have made some changes to the layout of information, adding more information and labels for areas and improving how we detail green spaces.
We have added some of, but not all, the additional detail that you told us about. Adding some things would mean we would have to include everything in that category, and that could make the map too busy or become outdated quickly as things change. (A spreadsheet of our rationale for what categories we are including on the on-street map signs is available on request.)
We have tweaked the design of the tabs and made more use of pictograms.
On the right there are pdf documents you can click on to view the Prototype sign which has now been installed on Barry Island; the text for all the 'tabs' info boxes; and more examples of Explorer and Connector type map signs. Below is an image of all the pictograms that have been designed for the map.
