[OSM-talk] "Crudely-drawn pint glasses"

Igor Brejc igor.brejc at gmail.com
Tue Jan 29 21:43:29 GMT 2008


Gervase Markham wrote:
> Chaps,
>
> As always, forgive me if this is an old issue, but: I noticed that an 
> organisation I have contact with has a map in their "how to get here" 
> leaflet, which they may well have just copied from somewhere. I'd like 
> to recommend they use an OSM map instead, but looking at the area:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.45561&lon=-0.96828&zoom=16&layers=B0FT
> I find that the area they would screenshot is covered with crudely-drawn 
> pint glasses.[0]
>
> Are there any plans to either:
>
> a) put layers into the Slippy Map so people can remove unwanted data 
> such as this; or:
> b) set up a web service so that people can have custom maps (of 
> reasonably small areas) rendered according to their specified criteria?
>
> Asking them to install and configure their own copy of Mapnik seems 
> somewhat unreasonable...
>
> Gerv
>
> [0] Note: the purpose of this message is _not_ to have a dig at the icon 
> designer. But you must admit they are fairly simple icons.
>
>   
Is there somewhere a repository of totally free general-purpose icons 
such as this? I'm asking because I would like to extend Kosmos rendering 
rules with some nice icons.

I agree with you about the pint glass. But I guess any contribution has 
to be appreciated if nothing better comes along :)

Something like this, but without license problems: 
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/?id=3489343&refnum=439363

Cheers,
Igor

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