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 <ajt1...@gmail.com> 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 > >
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