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

nebulon42 nebulon42 at yandex.com
Tue Nov 3 07:02:42 UTC 2015


Please tell us about which style you are talking or post a link so that 
we can have a look for ourselves. As far as the OSM standard style is 
concerned it does not have an icon for university buildings (yet).

nebulon42

Am 2015-11-03 um 07:28 schrieb Nasir Khan:
> Thanks for the response.
>
> The point i want to mention that, we should improve the Icons for
> different type for establishments. For example "University Building" it
> uses the "Home" icon, but i think it should be different because
> building could be administration or hostel. This is an example but there
> are other similar cases.
>
>
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> On 3 November 2015 at 03:14, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com
> <mailto:ajt1047 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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 <http://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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