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wayfinding  

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  • Wayfinding is the cognitive-conceptual process of finding and planning a route from an origin to a destination through a known, partially known, or unknown environment. Travel from an origin to a destination is a fundamental human activity that nearly everyone completes on a daily basis. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Wayfinding]

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