[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.
>
>
> --
> *Nasir Khan Saikat*
> www.nasirkhn.com <http://www.nasirkhn.com>
>
>
> 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)
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> talk mailing list
> talk at openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk at openstreetmap.org>
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> talk mailing list
> talk at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
>
More information about the talk
mailing list