Hello Guys, I'm doing a report at university and I was wondering i
anyone can help me. I'm currently Researching Satellite Navigatio
systems and I'm wondering why certain colors are used on them, fo
example orange is used on some, blue, greens purple for road direction
etc.... is it as simple as the colors imply certain things like Blu
used to show water, green to show grass land, brown for woodland or i
there more to it?

if your not sure on the answer do you know where i could go to find thi
information out.

Thanks Waseem


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waseem7744

On 2011-11-16 10:43 , waseem7744 wrote:
> Hello Guys, I'm doing a report at university and I was wondering if
> anyone can help me. I'm currently Researching Satellite Navigation
> systems and I'm wondering why certain colors are used on them, for
> example orange is used on some, blue, greens purple for road directions
> etc.... is it as simple as the colors imply certain things like Blue
> used to show water, green to show grass land, brown for woodland or is
> there more to it?
>
> if your not sure on the answer do you know where i could go to find this
> information out.

If you mean the map display then you should go to the various
manufacturer sites and download the manuals.


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I doubt you will find an agreed upon standard for the colors. A
competent designer selects screen features that are easy to see ..
colors, contrast etc. If the design is successful the user will
quickly lean to interpret the display.

It's a human factors engineering thing.

--- CHAS

HIPAR;107160 Wrote:
> I doubt you will find an agreed upon standard for the colors. A
> competent designer selects screen features that are easy to see ..
> colors, contrast etc. If the design is successful the user will
> quickly lean to interpret the display.
>
> It's a human factors engineering thing.
>
> --- CHAS
ahh thanks guys, i just put some history about colour in my report, an
what colours mean on paper maps, made a 2 pages out of it so it shoul
be fine. thanks for getting back to me though

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waseem7744

waseem7744 wrote:

> ahh thanks guys, i just put some history about colour in my report, and
> what colours mean on paper maps, made a 2 pages out of it so it should
> be fine. thanks for getting back to me though

How do you get two pages out of of "there are no standards, it depends
on the manufacturers"?

Mind you, I was never any good with padding out my reports. :-)
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