First of all welcome! Always good to see new members of our ever growing community :)
If you want to buy a GPS you might want to go with a Garmin since then you can use OSM maps, which is awesome. However there are people here that know a lot more about GPSes, which to buy, which to avoid. Also by searching on the wiki you can find a lot of stuff. According to you question about icons, OSM is, almost, complete anarchy. So someone things of something creates an icon and it is done. So feel free to create new images, a collective icon set would be awesome since it would improve the overall look and feel of the map. Also maybe day/night icons etc could be possible for navigation software or something. I am not aware of any group in particular working on this, but I could be wrong, so I guess it would be best to just create a place on the wiki and start uploading nice (vector) images. Regards, --Roeland On Saturday 08 August 2009 01:35:29 Austin Martin wrote: > Hey my name is Austin Martin, I recently got registered on OpenStreetMap > (wiki and map), because I heard about it on FLOSS Weekly, Wednesday (though > I have volunteered to help FLOSS projects for a while now, know how most > work, and have heard about/visited the site before). So I thought I might > introduce myself and ask a few questions. > > What is a recommended GPS (low lost, but with average features), or > commonly used one with the people of OSM? > > Also, does OSM need a collective icon set, because by looking at this: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features. It seems like just a > random mishmash of icons, but maybe I'm wrong on this.. However if I'm > right, I would love to work on this to create a similar stylized icon set > custom for OSM (and projects using OSM data..). > > Finally if someone can please inform me on any current projects related to > art or promotion, because that's generally what I like to contribute. > (Though of course mapping will be done..) > > I guess that's all, hopefully I can make some nice contributions to OSM, > Austin Martin
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