[OSM-talk] Making OSM map images?

[Jochen Topf]

On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 04:26:58PM +0800, Mike Collinson wrote:
> Would anyone with either graphic design knowledge or working on the 
> various rendering package options give any guidelines on producing 
> useful (non SVG) icons for OSM use?

Please, please create SVG icons. They are scalable and so they are much
more useful. And it is absolutely no problem to create PNGs from them
but not the other way round.

And speaking as someone working on osmarender: Osmarender uses only SVG
icons and probably always will, because otherwise the SVG file isn't
self-sufficient and you need all sorts of PNG files and rendering time.

If you can't create SVG for some reason, use any other vector format and
somebody will probably be able to convert them.

Jochen
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