<p>The icon that is used for geolocation on the OSM site is currently this:</p>
<p><a href="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/4050617/24165769/8e0dd1fe-0e2e-11e7-8ce9-dbaffbe9ff95.PNG" target="_blank"><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/4050617/24165769/8e0dd1fe-0e2e-11e7-8ce9-dbaffbe9ff95.PNG" alt="osm-geoloc-icon" style="max-width:100%;"></a></p>
<p>That icon more typically used for navigation. I would expect that clicking on such an arrow would provide me with turn-by-turn directions. There are other icons that much more clearly mean "show me my location".</p>
<p>While there is not one definitive agreed-upon standard set of icons, <a href="https://thenounproject.com/">The Noun Project</a> includes many cc-licensed icons that are tagged and organized. If you search for "navigation", then you get a lot of arrows that are similar to the one above.</p>
<p>If you search for "current location" on the Noun Project, or just on Google Image Search, it yields many crosshair-like icons; such as:<br>
<a href="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/4050617/24166587/f8bc9d58-0e30-11e7-8bc8-976d70d588b6.png" target="_blank"><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/4050617/24166587/f8bc9d58-0e30-11e7-8bc8-976d70d588b6.png" alt="noun_814578_cc" style="max-width:100%;"></a></p>
<p>(cc-by shashank singh, <a href="https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=current%20location&i=814578">source</a>)</p>
<p>Alternatively, if you search for "my location" on the Noun Project it gives many icons of a "dropped pin" with a human associated with it, e.g.:</p>
<p><a href="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/4050617/24166645/2dcd6a36-0e31-11e7-9d0d-4005d1ee7249.png" target="_blank"><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/4050617/24166645/2dcd6a36-0e31-11e7-9d0d-4005d1ee7249.png" alt="noun_607182_cc" style="max-width:100%;"></a><br>
(cc-by, Ismael Ruiz, <a href="https://thenounproject.com/term/my-location/607182/">source</a>)</p>
<p>Either of those would be more clearly indicative of what the location button actually does. Please consider using one of those alternatives.  I do not mean that you necessarily have to use one of these specific icons; I am just using them as representative of icons that, in general, are used to indicate the user's current position, so some other "crosshair" or "person-with-pin" icon would work as well. If cc-by is insufficient, I volunteer to go hunting for one that is public domain/cc0.</p>

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