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

[John F. Eldredge]

Agreed. The general-purpose renderings, at least those intended for small-screen use, should use a limited number of icons, and those should each apply to a range of related object types. Large-screen and printed maps can use a wider range of icon types, since there is room for a map legend. Special-purpose renderings can use more specific icons, but may need to either include a legend or provide a link to a legend.


On September 16, 2014 1:32:29 AM CDT, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> 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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