<html><head></head><body>Agreed. The general-purpose renderings, at least those intended for small-screen use, should use a limited number of icons, and those should each apply to a range of related object types. Large-screen and printed maps can use a wider range of icon types, since there is room for a map legend. Special-purpose renderings can use more specific icons, but may need to either include a legend or provide a link to a legend.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On September 16, 2014 1:32:29 AM CDT, Frederik Ramm <frederik@remote.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Hi,<br /><br />On 09/15/2014 07:43 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Maybe this is running up on the limit of only rendering shop values with<br /> 100 instances?<br /></blockquote><br />I think that many people think too much information science ("how can I<br />compress the most information into the smallest room") and too little<br />cartography ("how can I make a map with a good user interface").<br /><br />A map icon is what, 32x32 pixels or so? A couple of millimeters on the<br />screen. As long as you stick to 20 POI icons, you will be able to select<br />icons that are instantly recognizable. Something with a film strip...<br />must be a cinema. Once you introduce 100 icons, your map becomes<br />unreadable without a legend. Yes you *can* devise a film-strip-and-pipe<br />icon denoting a cinema that uniquely shows crime dramas but you're<br
/>leaving the realm of the easy-to-use map (much like having 5 different<br />types of dash-dot patterns for various types of tracks).<br /><br />It appears to me that unless the user actively requests to drill down<br />deeper on something (and we have the technology to do that), we should<br />stick with a very small number of icons.<br /><br />Maybe we can find a way to actually detect that shop=bicycle;skateboard<br />is some kind of sports-related shop and display a generic<br />sports-related-shop icon, the same that we would use for shop=bicycle or<br />shop=skateboard alone.<br /><br />Bye<br />Frederik<br /><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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