Am 13.01.2013 um 12:46 schrieb Philipp Kandal <philipp.kan...@skobbler.com>: > On 01/11/2013 03:26 PM, Alex Barth wrote: >> Over here at MapBox we see a need to better communicate the open and >> contributory philosophy of OpenStreetMap on our maps. > I fully agree with that vision and I think overall one of the key things > of that is that people using services made with OpenStreetMap (such as > Foursquare, Mapbox or our skobbler) can be better encouraged to become > active OSM community members. > So we would be definitely supportive of such a standardization and better > communication. >
+1 > On 01/11/2013 05:03 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > >> Also, we in OpenStreetMap have often positioned ourselves as "more than >> just markers on a map", and logo suggestions involving the typical map >> marker teardrop have been rejected (loudly) in the past because of that. > If we try to fit all symbolism in the logo it will certainly fail, so I > think here we have to make a compromise and foremost a logo must be catchy > and easy to identify. Even the best logos (e.g. Twitters bird) catch only > part of the identity (in this case freedom) and not every single aspect of > a service. while this might be true there is still an open question whether a hammer is the best symbol to choose from. (One could argue that it is a good representation for someone actually doing something, but on the other hand it's also a symbol for something not done in the most precise way ). Personally if I had to choose from these two: http://www.deutschesinstitut.it/Newsletter/bilder/ddr_hammer_sichel.png I would have chosen the compasses. ;-) cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
