[OSM-talk] icon for veterinary

[Chris Hill]

Daniel Neugebauer wrote:
> Hi again!
>
> I didn't expect that my previous question would make such a great fuss. Since 
> I now volunteered for implementing an icon for amenity=veterinary, I couldn't 
> get my mind off the icon itself today.
>
> The approved proposal - which I now know should not have any direct influence 
> on the renderers presentation since they are independent projects - included a 
> paw icon that shows up at "rendered-as" in the green box at
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Approved_features/Veterinary
>
> As user Breezer commented *after* the voting had passed, that could be 
> misleadingly interpreted as a pet shop instead. I agree with that and would 
> prefer a different or modified icon.
>
> Now I've got a few more questions: (practical, not technical)
>
> 1. Am I free to choose any other icon at my own decision or should I open a
>    draft/RFC/vote in the wiki (or elsewhere) and post a few alternative icons?
>    This is not about necessity but about organizational stuff since there was
>    a somehow approved icon already and openstreetmap.org displays tiles on its
>    front page, so I don't want to interfere with previous decisions.
>   
I originally proposed the Veterinary tag.  I added the paw icon, and I 
don't like it.  Please use anything you want to.  It would be good to 
see it render especially now there are hundreds in the DB.


Cheers, Chris