Hello, OJ, Roeland, all<br><br>On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Roeland Douma <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unix@rullzer.com">unix@rullzer.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If you want to buy a GPS you might want to go with a Garmin since then you can<br>
use OSM maps, which is awesome. However there are people here that know a lot<br>
more about GPSes, which to buy, which to avoid. Also by searching on the wiki<br>
you can find a lot of stuff.</blockquote><div> <br>Yea, I looked around the wiki, just the page that is used to inform you about buying a GPS (<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GPS_Reviews">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GPS_Reviews</a>) was just a bit too overwhelming. As apposed to something like this: <a href="http://www.bestinclass.com/digital-cameras">http://www.bestinclass.com/digital-cameras</a>, which makes the process a bit (a lot) easier. So I thought I might try to ask here.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
According to you question about icons, OSM is, almost, complete anarchy. So<br>
someone things of something creates an icon and it is done. So feel free to<br>
create new images, a collective icon set would be awesome since it would<br>
improve the overall look and feel of the map. Also maybe day/night icons etc<br>
could be possible for navigation software or something.</blockquote><br><div>Thanks, that answers my 2nd question nicely.<br><br>On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:47 AM, OJ W <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ojwlists@googlemail.com">ojwlists@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Browsing through <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:NewImages" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:NewImages</a><br>
you see people uploading all sorts of icons, but as tiny bitmap images<br>
rather than SVG. It would be nice to have someone organising it all<br>
into one place so you didn't have to go searching over SVN to find<br>
icons.</blockquote><div><br>Yea I intend to create the collection using Inkscape, and upload the collection with SVG source and rendered PNGs of 32, 24, and 16 sizes. Also I will make a wiki page once I get substantial progress. I'm intending to make the collection somewhat follow <a href="http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Desktop_Project">Tango!</a> Icon Guidelines, because the style guidelines really do make the icons look nice.<br>
<br>I have created a list of what I'm going to try to create, please add/change, sort the list how you think it should be, or just make comments at the bottom. The list is located here: <br><br><a href="http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AXYd3_GKYmbBZGhwMjlkY3pfNWM2dzd6d2Ny&hl">http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AXYd3_GKYmbBZGhwMjlkY3pfNWM2dzd6d2Ny&hl</a>.<br>
<br>Finally, I have attached a traffic light (16, 24, 36 pngs) for input, hopefully you all like it. (They follow this in a way when it comes to naming: <a href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html">http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html</a>.)<br>
<br>Austin Martin<br></div></div></div>