本文件规定了准备、设计、施工、检查和更新各个阶段的要求，并给出了一系列指南，包括公共场所使用的信息索引标志。 本文件适用于公共场所使用的信息索引标志的设计和使用，如公共汽车站和火车站、机场、购物中心、商店、医院、展览馆、体育和娱乐综合体、城市地区、公园、花园和乡村、公共景点、博物馆和商业办公楼。 工作区信息索引标志的设计和使用也可参考本文件的内容。 本文件不适用于受法规或规定设计原则约束的部门（例如，公路上的交通标志）。然而，在给定的公共环境中，或在寻路和标志设计概要中，有时需要将公共信息与其他信息联系起来，本文件中包含的许多原则可能与协调方案的规划相关。

This document specifies requirements and gives a range of guidelines for various stages of preparation, design, construction, inspection and updating that comprise an information index signs used in public places. This document is applicable to the design and use of information index signs used in public places such as bus and railway stations, airports, shopping centres, stores, hospitals, exhibition halls, sporting and entertainment complexes, urban areas, parks, gardens and countryside, public attractions, museums and commercial office buildings. The design and use of information index signs in working areas can also use the content of this document for reference. This document is not applicable to those sectors (for example, traffic signs on a public highway) which are subject to regulations or specified design principles. However, in a given public environment or within a wayfinding and signing design brief, where there is sometimes a need for public information to be associated with other messaging, many of the principles contained in this document can be relevant in the planning of a coordinated scheme.