Re: [OSM-talk] Improved new Icon set for Open Street map
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 On 3 November 2015 at 03:14, Andy Townsend 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". 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@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Improved new Icon set for Open Street map
Hi, I am a big fan of Open Street Map. I used this for may of my web application projects. 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. I really feel that we all should look at this issue and make a plan to improve this user experience. If you compare the OSM with the Google map icons, then you can say that the Google Map is way more ahead that the OSM. I am not sure if it is right forum to discuss this issue. Please help me if i posted in the wrong mailing list. Any one can tell me if it is already in the roadmap or not? If it is not, then i think we can start the discussion right away. We can team up with some other platforms like The Noun Project ( https://thenounproject.com/) or some one else or do something else. thanks Nasir Khan -- *Nasir Khan Saikat* www.nasirkhn.com ​Public Lead, Creative Commons Bangladesh Founding Member Wikimedia Bangladesh​ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Introduction
Sorry for cross posting. Dear All, My name is Nasir Khan Saikat, I am form Bangladesh. I have to use the OSM a lot and in different ways. I am contributor of Wikipedia, OSM is implemented there. At the same time i am a software developer and a number of my applications are using this open street map. I am working with the Directorate General of Health Services of Bangladesh and right now i am working on several projects which are based on geo server, open street map, open layer, leaflet js and so on. My direct contribution to the main Open Steet Map is not that much. But by working on these projects i had to collect a huge amount of data and there is options to push this data to the OSM. And withing one month i am going to start a new project based on Wikipedia. On that project we will collect photograph, geo location and related information of all the historical places of Bangladesh. I am writing here because i want to meet the OSM community of Bangladesh. I might need some assistance regarding this projects and you can suggest me a better way to complete these projects. At the same i want to is there any other ongoing projects running in Bangladesh, I would love to join those project and assist the others as much as i can. *-- **Nasir Khan Saikat* <http://profiles.google.com/nasir8891> www.nasirkhn.com Administrator Bengali Wikipedia Founding Member Wikimedia Bangladesh http://bd.wikimedia.org Assistant Secretory Bangladesh Open Source Network http://bdosn.org ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
