[OSM-talk] icon style guide

[Joerg Ostertag]

Am Montag, 5. November 2007 16:54:57 schrieb Thom Shannon:
> We have a lot of icons being created for maps, from an aesthetic point
> of view they vary pretty wildly. Conveying the right information in a
> tiny little graphic is a real art unto itself.
>
> Some examples:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_Icons

We already have started some icon themes. There are the classic* which are as 
you describe them a little wildley. And there is the square.* Theme which is 
pretty coherent in what it looks like. They all can be found at:
	http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/share/map-icons/
If you like to see all icons as an overview, you can have a look at the page
	http://gpsdrive.de/development/map-icons/overview.en.shtml
For me the primary goal is to get a complete set of icons for all the main 
point of interests. In the second run it will be nice to get a complete set 
of icons in a coherent look. So I'd suggest we first fill the icon structure 
with all the PD-licenced icons we have. Then in addition we try to convince 
someone more design centric to create a complete set of niceley designed 
icons.
In the long term (1-2 years from now) we'll probably have more than one or two 
nice and complete usable icon sets available.

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Joerg