Wayfinding

Wayfinding (or way-finding) encompasses all of the ways in which people (and animals) orient themselves in physical space and 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 kiosks or smartphones.

The basic process of wayfinding involves four stages: 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, astronomical positioning and, more recently, global positioning.

Despite the dangers of being out at sea for a long time, wayfinding was a way of life.