[OSM-talk] Announcement of the release of a new set of POI icons
yvecai
yvecai at gmail.com
Mon Mar 17 18:10:23 UTC 2014
Saman remarks are right.
I wonder: you use a wiki, could it be edited to propose alternative
icons and share the refinement burden ? Is it possible to do so while
keeping a common style?
Maybe the target would be to symplify the icons to obtain legibility at
small size, while keeping it as close as possible to the original.
Yves
On 03/17/2014 07:01 PM, Saman Bemel-Benrud wrote:
> This is a great initiative, but there's a lot of room for improvement.
> There are two big things that would increase the odds of adoption for
> a set like this:
>
> - Remove the containing boxes. The boxes hurt legibility because every
> icon has the same silhouette, and also makes it difficult for the
> icons to scale down well because the boxes occupy unnecessary space.
> - Ensure the icons are legible at small sizes. Right now, there are
> many fine details that get lost when scaled down to the size these
> would be displayed on the map at (>=20px x 20px). I would make an
> effort to reduce the dependency on multiple symbols to get your
> concepts across. For example, why is the chess board icon two people
> under a tent, beside a chess board? This would work much better as a
> single symbol, like a chess Rook or a simplified board.
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com
> <jaakko at helleranta.com <mailto:jaakko at helleranta.com>> wrote:
>
> re: license:
> "The original SJJB icons as well as the icons newly designed are
> provided under the CC-0 license and therefore can be used for any
> commercial or non commercial mapping application.
> (...) Some of the icons I found in the OSM wiki have another
> license. Please respect that."
> http://osm-icons.org/wiki/Icons#License_of_the_icons
>
> -J
>
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> On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 2:23 PM, wn reader <wnreader at gmail.com
> <mailto:wnreader at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> what license are the icons? also cc-0 as SJJB?
>
> Marc
>
> Markus Semm schrieb:
>
> Hi all,
>
> a set of more than 1000 POI icons for OSM maps and OSM
> editors has been released today.
>
> The main purpose of this icon set is
> a) covering all OSM POI tags with at least 1000
> occurrences according to TAGINFO
> b) provision of the most common key-value combinations for
> each icon
> c) assignment of each icon to one or multiple map feature
> groups
>
> This icon set can be used for the following purposes:
> a) integration into existing or future OSM editors
> b) to display POIs on any OSM map
>
> My hope is receiving some feedback from the community in
> order to further improve this icon set including the
> related metadata.
>
> The icon set can be downloaded here: http://osm-icons.org
>
> Thank you very much in advance for your feedback!
> Cheers Markus
>
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