hehe, i was the one who made this personal old icon inspired by Malsingmap's 7-11 icon to represent Convenience Store.
the decision was based on the limitation by Garmin's assignments of Hex Codes to represent/differentiate the stores where we buy our supplies: 1. Convenience Store (referring to 24-hour convenience store found in Gas Stations in USA. that's what Garmin had in mind) 2. Generic Market/Grocery (local grocery or foodmarts, wetmarket, talipapa, small chinese merchandisers, sari-sari store that sells 'tingi-tingi' products) 3. Supermarket (which i decided to assign to a typical hypermarket: huge grocery stores that also sells school supplies, apparel & appliances) 4. Mall (a complex composed of many stores) 5. Department Store (one-stop shop for apparel/appliance/homedecor/etc minus the groceries) Most casual travelers (not the adventurous ones) look for 24-hour convenience store with familiar products/suppliers and other stuffs such as cellphoneloads/newspaper/icecubes/batteries/cupnoodles/bottledwater/energydrink/hotcoffee/toiletries, and has an ability to break larger bills anytime of day (eg. 7-Eleven/Ministop/Mighteemart etc). I needed an intuitive common icon to represent these multi-brand 24-hour convenience stores in PH, that can fit on 16x16 pixels using basic 256colors - since my target device was a low-res outdoor Garmin 276c 60c/76c. And I also needed to differentiate these from the countless "daytime sari-sari stores" to reduce clutter during search. Malsingmap exclusively used 7-11 icon for convenience store. (I'm no artist) but as a compromise, I just opted to split the icon with two biggest brands 7-11 & Ministop to associate with a 24hour convenience store. I then used Garmin's default "grocery cart" icon to represent a regular talipapa/sari-sari store.This personal TYP file was adapted by maning when I merged my custom settings with osmphgarmin. We can always replace a 24hour convenience store by a 'basket' icon or something. But personally, I tend associate "basket" with "market" (that's just me), thus used this annoying 7-11/Ministop icon. :-) But it does the job to quickly tell my brain that it's a 24hour-sari-sari-tourist-friendly store (coz I'd rather search 'visually' when looking for something on low-res none-touchscreen gps devices than use a joystick to type in each letter in the searchbox). BTW in most nuvi, you don't even need an icon to search for things because of excellent searchbox & oncreen keyboard..You can customize icon with unlimited colors and up to 24x24pixel icon, and all icons are invisible on the map (no clutter) unless you individually search for it. In the newer Nuvi models such as 2750, there's totally no need for custom icons (doesn't show). Anyway, my idea may already be obsolete. Any new intuitive icon design is welcome. It's actually easy to customize to improve the TYP file, and I can teach those not familiar... Rally :-) On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <[email protected]> wrote: > <<Subject was "BGC C-5 flyover">> > >> This is an osmph garmin map issue, we used the generic "7-11" icons >> for shop=grocer. Â Suggestions for a better icon style welcome. >>> on another note, since i use my unit zoomed in to reveal POIs, there's this >>> annoying 7-Eleven >>> icon that indicates small convenience store that's actually Mini-stop. is >>> this a Nuvi problem or a map >>> problem? > > The current icon for convenience stores in our Garmin map is actually > a 7-11 and Mini Stop hybrid. The top half represents 7-11 while the > bottom is for Mini Stop (recognize the colors?) > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
