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{{Short description|Ways in which people navigate from place to place}}
[[File:Visitor reading a map (50141864587).jpg|thumb|A man referring to a paper map in [[Joshua Tree National Park]]]]
'''Wayfinding''' (or '''way-finding''') encompasses all of the ways in which people (and animals) [[Orientation (mental)|orient]] themselves in physical space and [[navigation|navigate]] from place to place.
'''Wayfinding software''' is a self-service computer program that helps users to find a location, usually used indoors and installed on [[interactive kiosk]]s or [[smartphone]]s.

==Basic process==
The basic process of wayfinding involves four stages:

# ''Orientation'' is the attempt to determine one's location, in relation to objects that may be nearby and the desired destination.
# ''Route decision'' is the selection of a course of direction to the destination.
# ''Route monitoring'' is checking to make sure that the selected route is heading towards the destination.
# ''Destination recognition'' is when the destination is recognized.<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l0QPECGQySYC&pg=PA260|chapter=Wayfinding|title=The Pocket Universal Principles of Design: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design|page=260|last1=Lidwell|first1=William|last2=Holden|first2=Kritina|last3=Butler|first3=Jill|publisher=Rockport Publishers|year=2010|isbn=9781610580656|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>

==Historical usage==
Historically, wayfinding refers to the techniques used by travelers over land and sea to find relatively unmarked and often mislabeled routes. These include but are not limited to [[dead reckoning]], [[map]] and [[compass]], [[celestial navigation|astronomical]] positioning and, more recently, [[global positioning]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.popsci.com/wayfinding-excerpt/|title=GPS gives directions, but what does it take away?|last=O'Connor|first=M.R.|website=[[Popular Science]]|date=April 30, 2019|access-date=January 25, 2021}}</ref>

[[Polynesian navigation|Polynesian wayfinding]] refers to the use of traditional wayfinding and navigation methods by the indigenous peoples of [[Polynesia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.hokulea.com/navigate/wayfind.html|title=Modern Wayfinding|website=[[Polynesian Voyaging Society]]|access-date=January 25, 2021}}</ref> The ancient Polynesians and Pacific Islanders mastered the methods of wayfinding to explore and settle on the islands of the Pacific, many using devices such as the [[Marshall Islands stick chart]]. With these skills, some of them were even able to navigate the ocean as well as they could navigate their own land. Despite the dangers of being out at sea for a long time, wayfinding was a way of life.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2014/03/03/hokulea-the-art-of-wayfinding-interview-with-a-master-navigator/|title=Hōkūle'a: The Art of Wayfinding (Interview With a Master Navigator)|last=Lin|first=Daniel|work=[[National Geographic]]|date=March 3, 2014|access-date=January 25, 2021}}</ref> Today, The Polynesian Voyaging Society tries-out the traditional Polynesian ways of navigation.

==Urban or indoor==
{{excerpt|Wayfinding (urban or indoor)}}

==See also==
* [[Wayfinding (urban or indoor)]]
* [[Direction determination]]
* [[Land navigation]]
* [[Location-based service]]
* [[Orienteering]]
* [[Sense of direction]]
* [[Trail blazing]] (waymarking)

{{Orienteering}}

==References==
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[[Category:Footpaths]]
[[Category:Trails]]
[[Category:Navigation]]

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