Re: [OSM-talk] Announcement of the release of a new set of POI icons

2014-03-17 Thread Saman Bemel-Benrud
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

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcement of the release of a new set of POI icons

2014-03-17 Thread yvecai
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

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcement of the release of a new set of POI icons

2014-03-17 Thread Markus Semm
Hi, a feedback menu option was added to the osm-icons.org wiki. This is the direct link to the feedback wiki page: http://osm-icons.org/wiki/Public:Main . Cheers Markus ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Announcement of the release of a new set of POI icons

2014-03-16 Thread Markus Semm
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)

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcement of the release of a new set of POI icons

2014-03-16 Thread Yves
One word: huge ! Yves On 16 mars 2014 17:49:39 UTC+01:00, Markus Semm ms...@enaikoon.de wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcement of the release of a new set of POI icons

2014-03-16 Thread Jaakko Helleranta.com
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.