On 3 March 2012 04:04, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just to double check: they know it’s already there as an area, they > just want to see an icon on top of it as well? What kinds of areas? > Ones without (rendered) names?
No, often they don't realise. For example, when there's a supermarket tagged as an area, they think the supermarket isn't mapped, and try adding an icon for it. The turquoise building outline (or whatever) doesn't lead them to think that it has been mapped. >> People get mightily confused when the icons on the map don’t match the icons >> on the sidebar. Maybe we need to rethink how the sidebar icons appear. > > Examples? It would be pretty easy to fix some of these. Well, I think hairdressers was one. But the bigger point is that if the map style has different icons (e.g. the opencyclemap style) then switching map styles doesn't update the sidebar. The icons displayed are more of a "map style" consideration than a "map features" consideration, to a certain extent, so maybe the map style should define the icon, and the sidebar pick them up from there. Dropping an icon and having a different one appear isn't great. On the other hand, I frequently get asked why the icons in potlatch2 don't match the icons on the main map layer precisely - which is something that's unsolvable in many cases. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Potlatch-dev mailing list Potlatch-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/potlatch-dev