[OSM-talk] SVG icon for amenity:shelter

[Christoph Eckert]

Hi Martin,

> In the proposal, several people suggested using building:shelter instead of
> amenity:shelter.

as a non native speaker, I cannot comment on it. Finally it's not that 
important which key gets used.

> So I tried to get a list of all amenity:shelter and one of all
> building:shelter nodes in the planet via the 0.5 API using wget to see
> which one is more widely used, but instead I only got lists of many random
> nodes. (I was following the 0.5 API Documentation on
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.5 )

Maybe a cat planet.osm | grep -i shelter | wc -l could shed some light on how 
often it was used. The current germany.osm contains 72 shelters and refuges. 
Seems there are not that many hikers in osm :) .

> What can be done to finish this proposal, its been there for ages...

Find nine voters and you're done :) .

> For the bus stop thing: I think this doesnt need a different tag, its still
> a public hut (or only a roof) providing protection from bad weather.

It's better to have a general tag than none. But if it comes to rendering, it 
may lead to weird results. I'd thus prefer a dedicated tag like 
amenity=shelter for the ones usually spread in woods.

Best regards,

ce