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What would you call such a sign post (Wanderwegweiser) in French and Italian, such that if I tell a person to meet me at such sign post, or actually take a picture of such a signpost, they will understand and not send me a picture of an ordinary road or direction sign?

I know you French folks are keen with words and letters, is there something shorter than "Panneaux indicateurs de sentiers de randonnées"?
Like "Indicateurs de randonnée" or "Panneaux de randonnée"?

For Italian, what is right: cartello escursione, Cartello sentieri, Cartelli indicatori sentieri, palina escursionistica, palina indicatori sentieri ? Or something else?


Thank you for your help.

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There's nothing short in French as far as I know. They're called panneaux de signalisation des chemins de randonnée pédestre.

What You even added more letters and words to it

One way to find similar names might be to start from the German or English site and then swap to the French and Italian equivalent.
Maybe somewhere here?

in italian should be enough "cartelli dei sentieri" (plural)

ci incontriamo ai / puoi farmi una foto dei
- cartelli dei sentieri

more precise (redundant) "cartelli segnaletici dei sentieri escursionistici" (plural)

You could call them Les panneaux jaune which is what I call them and nobody had misunderstood so far.

Many thanks to all.

There is even a official site from the federation on hiking trails and its signaling : https://www.astra.admin.ch/astra/fr/...andations.html

So I already did my research. But my Italian is just enough do somehow order some food and something which seems to be beer or wine. So even if I see something I am not sure if it is the right thing.

For French it is a bit simpler. But still I hoped there is a short term which is in use.

Rencontre sous le panneau jaune de randonnée à + location

would be perfectly understandable in French.

(meet under ...)

"Google Maps"

So it's
a) German: Wanderwegweiser
b) French: panneaux de signalisation des chemins de randonnée pédestre
c) Italian: cartelli segnaletici dei sentieri escursionistici

And I thought German is renowned for Schlangenwörter.

No long words in French - just 8 short ones (and as said, it can easily be shortened without losing meaning).

I would say "i cartelli (gialli) che indicano i sentieri" or "cartelli dei sentieri"

Hi aSwissInTheUS,

I'll give you my 2 cents regarding Italian. While all of the translations that you mention in the first post will probably be easily understood by a native Italian, I join the group of those recommending "Cartello dei sentieri". It is a generic term but IMHO is the most understandable - everyone knows what a "cartello" is, the same for "sentiero".

To be precise, a technical term exists to label this type of signposts, and is "Tabella segnavia" (see http://www.sentiericai-fvg.it/SIMBOLI.htm). However accurate I consider it kind of jargon. For comparison, the hiking trail maps are called "Carta dei sentieri" and not "Carta segnavia".