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Trail marker symbol rather than name
Gazzas89-PGO
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Came across this while reviewing, rather than the trail name it used a symbol, I couldnt find any guidance on it so gave it a 1 star due to no name, but I figured it might be worth getting opinions on it
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Happy to accept a logo as a name provided it can be confirmed as legit.
I assume the logo is standing in for a name for example "acorn trail". I'd have scored that as a named trail with a decent description.
No, it wasnt acorn trail, but it was apparently a sign for the hadrian's wall
If you can logically attribute the symbol with a specific trail name, I see no problem with it. I've seen trail symbols used before, particularly when there is one or more trails that follow the same route. In those cases, there was a trail directory at the entry points or trail heads.
If its a sign for Hadrian's Wall that sounds excellent!
I have always accepted a trail logo in lieu of a name, provided the trail logo is unique to that named trail. It's very 50/50 though, I suspect a lot of people don't.
There's a 145km trail around my local to mark the city's centenary, 95% of the markers only have the logo on it. Used to be easy to get them through, now it's a lot harder, the locals have learnt that if they were to have a chance, don't upgrade the submission.
They look like this:
In general I'd accept a trail symbol in lieu of a name. The problem with this one is the Acorn doesn't represent a specific trail - it merely denotes that it's a national trail (the same symbol is used for all of the National Long Distance trails: https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/ )
I would still accept it because the acorn denotes that its a named trail (even though the acorn doesn't name it, I guess its a way to find out the name), so as long as the submission names the trail I think it's OK. I'm based that on guessing it's not a high density area, so it's probably the only semi-valid thing for miles around and that makes me quite lenient for well written submissions.