[josm-dev] Preset Icon Backgrounds - SCNR :)

[Brian Quinion]

Hi,

I'm glad you found the icons helpful.  Just to say that the last
version is now in svn
(http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/share/map-icons/svg-twotone/)
and the version on the sjjb.co.uk website is out of date.  The version
in svn contains quite a lot more icons and various improved scripts
for generating png icons - generatemapniksymbols.sh and
generatecategoryicons.sh most likely already do what you need.

--
 Brian

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Christoph Eckert <ce at christeck.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> more or less by accident, I tried to give some of the preset icons a
> transparent background. To achieve this, I copied over some icons from
> mappaint first, as mappaint icons often need a background color due to the
> [default] black background in JOSM.
>
> I converted many icons to B&W, as black is beautyful - just kidding. I got
> some momochrome icons I found much more "readable" at 16x16 than the previous
> ones. I might be wrong, though. I used some PD icons as found on
> commons.wikipedia.org, and some from
> http://www.sjjb.co.uk/mapicons/
>
> The latter source contains a converter script
> http://www.sjjb.co.uk/mapicons/SJJBMapIconsv0.01/generateicons.sh
> which simply uses sed to derive various color schemes from the svg files. I
> wonder if we could use a similar script to derive the preset and mappaint
> icons from the same source automatically instead of doing it manually.
>
> Needs some consideration about the file naming and folder structure. I'm for a
> completely flat structure in various folders for various styles. The script
> then could derive subfolders for the different styles ("White on
> white", "Blue on blue", "Black on black" and so on).
>
> Just my two cents,
>
> ce
>
>
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