[OSM-talk] Announcement of the release of a new set of POI icons

[yvecai]

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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