[OSM-talk] Improved new Icon set for Open Street map

[Andy Townsend]

On 02/11/2015 16:53, Nasir Khan wrote:
> ...
>
> One thing i faced every time and asked from many that, is there a way 
> to improve the icon set to make the map more attractive.

(apologies if I'm stating the obvious here, but...)

"OpenStreetMap" isn't just "the standard map that you see at 
openstreetmap.org".  There are five different tile layers available from 
the layer switcher there, designed for different purposes. Elsewhere, 
there are other styles.  For example,

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=project+extension%3Amml&type=Code&ref=searchresults

currently finds > 700, and no doubt there are lots of others elsewhere.  
Depending on what data you're showing, I'd expect that a different map 
style would make sense.  Just today I was using a commercial application 
that showed locations using "MQ Open" tiles (they wanted a road-atlassy 
thing I guess); something that wanted to show location in a mountainous 
area I'd would expect show contours or hillshading.  OpenStreetMap's 
"standard" style has as one of its goals feedback to mappers, so it 
includes more detail (for example of different sorts of shops) than I'd 
expect most general purpose maps to want to show.

It's very possible (and not terribly difficult) to come up with a map 
style that highlights the data that you want - making it then look nice 
is the tricky bit, as to me would be figuring out how to host and serve 
the data to allcomers (though as Wikimedia I suspect you've solved that 
last bit).

Cheers,

Andy (SomeoneElse)


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