• henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    1 day ago

    If I were driving I would take this to mean crosswalk or watch for kids due to having seen similar signs.

    I think it would be great to gain a new meaning however when posted in the middle of the road.

    • Humanius@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      The sign I posted follows the 1967 Vienna Convention on road signs.
      Afaik the US is not signatory to that treaty, but they probably have different signs with similar meaning

      Perhaps something like this, based on the US bike lane sign?

      • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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        Unfortunately, that’s limited to a single language, not international friendly. Having language at all makes it take longer to process too, but that’s not as much of an issue in this case.

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          That seems to be the standard in the US though. I’m only following what they already do over there.

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          17 hours ago

          Sadly, I don’t think you can have a wordless sign here that isn’t negative. The option is a “no cars” symbol. I don’t know how you’d do “pedestrians only” symbolicly.

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            7 hours ago

            Literally the image at the top of this comment chain?

            Circular white on blue signs are “order” signs. Whatever they don’t show is implicitly forbidden, without needing a red circle “forbiddance” sign.

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              America doesn’t follow the Vienna Convention on Road Signs, so a blue circular sign would be essentially meaningless over there. People have never seen it before and won’t know what it represents.

              Edit: As another example, this seems to be the sign for a bikelane or bikepath in the US

              Canada does seemingly have an “order” sign, but theirs is a white circle with a green border