[OSM-newbies] OSM

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:05 AM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
> can someone help?
>
> On Mar 9, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Mariannegaedtke at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> sorry to bother you, but I am looking for someone, who is able to change some drawing in OSM.

I'm going to assume you mean the map which appears at
openstreetmap.org. (is this correct?)

>> I mapped the jewish cemetery in our town and realized, that it is drawn with crosses. I searched for a possibility to change that, but didn't find a way.
>> Then I looked for other jewish cemeteries and found them drawn in the same way - with crosses.

>> This is absolutely impossible, and I want to ask for your help to change the tag for mapping jewish cemeteries.
>> Thanks a lot for your help!

The issue has come up before. It's not impossible, but it's also not trivial.

What would need to happen is for someone to create a new icon that
would be usable in the map. Some have suggested a generic headstone,
for example.

But if we rendered a Jewish cemetery differently- what symbol do you
think would be most appropriate? A Magen David? To support that, the
religion would need to specified. This could be done (it's not
impossible at all), just like it's done for place of worship:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Religion

The issue, again, is that there would need to be some work done to
make the various icons, and well as change the renderer.

I know at least one other person was working on a generic gravestone
symbol. Do you think this is a good idea?

- Serge

>> Sincerely
>> Marianne Gädtke
>
> Yours &c.
>
> Steve
>
>
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