[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Navigation icon being used for geolocation feature (#1494)
Joseph Morris
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Tue Mar 21 19:36:44 UTC 2017
The icon that is used for geolocation on the OSM site is currently this:
That icon more typically used for navigation. I would expect that clicking on such an arrow would provide me with turn-by-turn directions. There are other icons that much more clearly mean "show me my location".
While there is not one definitive agreed-upon standard set of icons, [The Noun Project](https://thenounproject.com/) includes many cc-licensed icons that are tagged and organized. If you search for "navigation", then you get a lot of arrows that are similar to the one above.
If you search for "current location" on the Noun Project, or just on Google Image Search, it yields many crosshair-like icons; such as:
(cc-by shashank singh, [source](https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=current%20location&i=814578))
Alternatively, if you search for "my location" on the Noun Project it gives many icons of a "dropped pin" with a human associated with it, e.g.:
(cc-by, Ismael Ruiz, [source](https://thenounproject.com/term/my-location/607182/))
Either of those would be more clearly indicative of what the location button actually does. Please consider using one of those alternatives. I do not mean that you necessarily have to use one of these specific icons; I am just using them as representative of icons that, in general, are used to indicate the user's current position, so some other "crosshair" or "person-with-pin" icon would work as well. If cc-by is insufficient, I volunteer to go hunting for one that is public domain/cc0.
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