[Tilesathome] tourism=alpine_hut icon for osmarender / shared map icons

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:21 PM, vegard <vegard at engen.priv.no> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:04:54PM +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> Here's a rendering for tourism=alpine_hut which is a proposed feature
>> on the wiki [1], I used shelter.svg (already in osmarender) as a
>> template.
>>
>
> I commented on the wiki, and I'll comment here:
>
> I'm for tourism=hut (*or* building=hut, with rendering of building on a
> node in addition), but feel that an alpine_hut is a special case. You
> can find huts in the wood, on the coast too, so I'd like that to be an
> attribute on the hut!

That's certainly a valid point but one more relevant to other forums,
if we have a decent icon for this type of object it can be rendered
for any set of key/value pairs whether that be tourism=alpine_hut or
something else like building=hut/hut:type=alpine as you propose. But
in either case an icon will be needed.

> And if you need to clarify, say hut:type=alpine. But would you even find
> a non-alpine type hut in alpine terrain, so is it really necessary? Will
> you not know from the location?

We don't have a way of finding whether a given point on the planet is
in alpine terrain or not, so no, we can't know from the location. We
don't even have SRTM elevation data for ~1/3 of the planet so in a lot
of cases you can't even make a reasonable guess.

I was planning on using this icon (and whatever tag went along with
it) for marking "mountain huts" in Iceland which are small huts in the
middle of nowhere, generally in mountainous regions and run by private
travel associations. These often aren't alpine at all (see e.g.
http://www.fi.is/skalar/hagavatn/ which obviously isn't above the tree
line) which as you point out indicates the lameness of the currently
proposed tagging schema.