[Tagging] The "not-shops": industrial, industry, or business

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 09/15/2014 07:43 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> Maybe this is running up on the limit of only rendering shop values with
> 100 instances?

I think that many people think too much information science ("how can I
compress the most information into the smallest room") and too little
cartography ("how can I make a map with a good user interface").

A map icon is what, 32x32 pixels or so? A couple of millimeters on the
screen. As long as you stick to 20 POI icons, you will be able to select
icons that are instantly recognizable. Something with a film strip...
must be a cinema. Once you introduce 100 icons, your map becomes
unreadable without a legend. Yes you *can* devise a film-strip-and-pipe
icon denoting a cinema that uniquely shows crime dramas but you're
leaving the realm of the easy-to-use map (much like having 5 different
types of dash-dot patterns for various types of tracks).

It appears to me that unless the user actively requests to drill down
deeper on something (and we have the technology to do that), we should
stick with a very small number of icons.

Maybe we can find a way to actually detect that shop=bicycle;skateboard
is some kind of sports-related shop and display a generic
sports-related-shop icon, the same that we would use for shop=bicycle or
shop=skateboard alone.

Bye
Frederik


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