Saman remarks are right.
I wonder: you use a wiki, could it be edited to propose alternative
icons and share the refinement burden ? Is it possible to do so while
keeping a common style?
Maybe the target would be to symplify the icons to obtain legibility at
small size, while keeping it as close as possible to the original.
Yves
On 03/17/2014 07:01 PM, Saman Bemel-Benrud wrote:
This is a great initiative, but there's a lot of room for improvement.
There are two big things that would increase the odds of adoption for
a set like this:
- Remove the containing boxes. The boxes hurt legibility because every
icon has the same silhouette, and also makes it difficult for the
icons to scale down well because the boxes occupy unnecessary space.
- Ensure the icons are legible at small sizes. Right now, there are
many fine details that get lost when scaled down to the size these
would be displayed on the map at (>=20px x 20px). I would make an
effort to reduce the dependency on multiple symbols to get your
concepts across. For example, why is the chess board icon two people
under a tent, beside a chess board? This would work much better as a
single symbol, like a chess Rook or a simplified board.
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com
<jaa...@helleranta.com <mailto:jaa...@helleranta.com>> wrote:
re: license:
"The original SJJB icons as well as the icons newly designed are
provided under the CC-0 license and therefore can be used for any
commercial or non commercial mapping application.
(...) Some of the icons I found in the OSM wiki have another
license. Please respect that."
http://osm-icons.org/wiki/Icons#License_of_the_icons
-J
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On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 2:23 PM, wn reader <wnrea...@gmail.com
<mailto:wnrea...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hello,
what license are the icons? also cc-0 as SJJB?
Marc
Markus Semm schrieb:
Hi all,
a set of more than 1000 POI icons for OSM maps and OSM
editors has been released today.
The main purpose of this icon set is
a) covering all OSM POI tags with at least 1000
occurrences according to TAGINFO
b) provision of the most common key-value combinations for
each icon
c) assignment of each icon to one or multiple map feature
groups
This icon set can be used for the following purposes:
a) integration into existing or future OSM editors
b) to display POIs on any OSM map
My hope is receiving some feedback from the community in
order to further improve this icon set including the
related metadata.
The icon set can be downloaded here: http://osm-icons.org
Thank you very much in advance for your feedback!
Cheers Markus
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