[OSM-newbies] High-level types and icons

[Mike Thompson]

What about looking at the presets in Potlatch to get an idea?

BTW, icons will be specific to a given renderer and will not be inherent in
the OSM data.

Mike


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Tac Tacelosky <tacman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I found this:
>
> https://github.com/smsm1/Mapzen-iOS/blob/master/res/config/area_types.xml
>
> Which seems like a good starting point.  The tagInfo site is huge, I spent
> some time in it, and got overwhelmed.  Very cool, but really hard when you
> want to make it super-easy for someone to say "I see a <type> named <name>"
> which is the high-level action I'm going for now.
>
> Tac
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:56 AM, SomeoneElse <lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk
> > wrote:
>
>> Tac Tacelosky wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Is there a list anywhere that we could use that has most of the common
>>> tags, with at most one level of depth, along with an icon and how the tags
>>> map?
>>>
>>
>> An excellent place to start looking at what tags are used and in what
>> combination with other tags is taginfo:
>>
>> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.**org/ <http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/>
>>
>> For example, if you search for "shop", and click on values you can see
>> what values are used for that tag.  "combinations" shows you what other
>> tags are used alongside "shop" etc.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
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