Gervase Markham wrote: > Chaps, > > As always, forgive me if this is an old issue, but: I noticed that an > organisation I have contact with has a map in their "how to get here" > leaflet, which they may well have just copied from somewhere. I'd like > to recommend they use an OSM map instead, but looking at the area: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.45561&lon=-0.96828&zoom=16&layers=B0FT > I find that the area they would screenshot is covered with crudely-drawn > pint glasses.[0] > > Are there any plans to either: > > a) put layers into the Slippy Map so people can remove unwanted data > such as this; or: > b) set up a web service so that people can have custom maps (of > reasonably small areas) rendered according to their specified criteria? > > Asking them to install and configure their own copy of Mapnik seems > somewhat unreasonable... > > Gerv > > [0] Note: the purpose of this message is _not_ to have a dig at the icon > designer. But you must admit they are fairly simple icons. > > Is there somewhere a repository of totally free general-purpose icons such as this? I'm asking because I would like to extend Kosmos rendering rules with some nice icons.
I agree with you about the pint glass. But I guess any contribution has to be appreciated if nothing better comes along :) Something like this, but without license problems: http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/?id=3489343&refnum=439363 Cheers, Igor -- http://igorbrejc.net _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
