Re: [mkgmap-dev] How to fix amenity=shelter in the default style?

2011-02-02 Thread SomeoneElse
On 02/02/2011 07:40, Marko Mäkelä wrote: Well, I would not want to pollute the hairdresser list with shelters. This is getting funny. Think about this scenario: Someone has been hiking and camping for weeks in the forests and is looking for the closest hairdresser, so that he can return to

Re: [mkgmap-dev] How to fix amenity=shelter in the default style?

2011-02-02 Thread Marko Mäkelä
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 01:26:11PM +, SomeoneElse wrote: I have not used the 0x2f14 so far, because its Garmin Finnish translation says 'social welfare office'. In English it's Social Service which is about as vague. I believe that it was translated from that string without making any

Re: [mkgmap-dev] How to fix amenity=shelter in the default style?

2011-02-01 Thread Marko Mäkelä
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 06:30:54AM +, char...@cferrero.net wrote: Have you tried one of the out-of-bounds codes around the 0x2b area? Maybe 0x2b06 or 0x2b07 (tent icon) or 0x2b08 to 0x2b1f (green/white bed)? I guess that the 0x2b06 or 0x2b07 could be the least evil, as a tent looks like a

Re: [mkgmap-dev] How to fix amenity=shelter in the default style?

2011-02-01 Thread Martin Simon
2011/1/31 Marko Mäkelä marko.mak...@iki.fi: If nobody can suggest a better symbol for amenity=shelter, I would remove amenity=shelter altogether from the default style. There seems to be some agreement that amenity=shelter may be too inaccurate tagging for the tourism or hiking related

Re: [mkgmap-dev] How to fix amenity=shelter in the default style?

2011-02-01 Thread SomeoneElse
On 31/01/2011 21:26, Marko Mäkelä wrote: Can anyone suggest a more suitable symbol for amenity=shelter? It does not need to be searchable, and it should not be any more 'visible' than, say, 0x2f17 (transit service; used by highway=bus_stop). Apologies if I'm duplicating discussion that's

[mkgmap-dev] How to fix amenity=shelter in the default style?

2011-01-31 Thread Marko Mäkelä
Last week, I changed the POI type for amenity=shelter in the default style from 0x2b05 (bed icon) to 0x6402 (an icon of a building block). Even though I later changed the resolution to 24, this symbol (along with grave yard symbols) seems to be visible from much greater distance than shops or

Re: [mkgmap-dev] How to fix amenity=shelter in the default style?

2011-01-31 Thread charlie
Marko Mäkelä (marko.mak...@iki.fi) wrote: Last week, I changed the POI type for amenity=shelter in the default style from 0x2b05 (bed icon) to 0x6402 (an icon of a building block). Even though I later changed the resolution to 24, this symbol (along with grave yard symbols) seems to be