Icons 0.2
September 25th, 2008
I’ve done a little more work on a consistent, high-zoom icon set and here is release 0.2. Here’s a sample of what the icons look like, although its best to see them on a real map to get the full effect.
I know I’d like to see these on the map, which means they have to be tagged. At the moment we, as a community, aren’t doing very well at tagging things which aren’t rendered (but we’re very good at tagging things that are, e.g: pubs 
). So, treat yourself and tag a nice restaurant today!
Update: I’ve had a special request for the airport icon without the shield, suitable for use at lower zoom levels, so here are the SVG and 
PNG files.
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6 Comments Add your own
1. Michal Migurski | September 26th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Looking good. Two comments: in the US, the police typically use a seven-pointed star. I’m not sure how this works in the rest of the world. Also, the fire dept. icon looks a little racy donchathink? =)
2. Michal Migurski | September 26th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Looking good. Two comments: in the US, the police typically use a seven-pointed star. I’m not sure how this works in the rest of the world. Also, the fire dept. icon looks a little racy donchathink? =)
3. Richard Fairhurst | September 26th, 2008 at 6:47 am
Lovely!
Don’t suppose you’d consider rethinking the licence? OSM icons are traditionally PD… perfect for Potlatch, for which I’m working on drag-and-drop POIs right now. I’d very much like to use yours (currently I’m using 24×24s based on the svg-twotone set) if the licence were compatible.
4. Gregory Marler | September 26th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Osmarender renders restaurants.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.42639&lon=-0.35533&zoom=17&layers=0B00FTF
Although the text is a little bit to far away, and you can see the known problem with POIs so close together.
5. Bellboy | September 26th, 2008 at 9:32 am
You did quite a good job by making these icons. That is a really great idea to make a consisted icon-theme. It looks more professional then having different icons.
I was just thinking about some icons which I believe are very important and could be added:
-schools / universities
-pharmacies
-post boxes
-telephones
-fuel stations
-hotels
in the long run it would be awesome to get a full set of all map features and every six month there could be an update for new features or changes.
If one thinks this a little further we can think about a real icon theme. Together with a more dynamic Slippy Map where the icons are not rendered but put onto the map as a layer people would be able to change the look of the icons. Other people could step up and make there own theme which can be selected on the main page.
6. Matt | September 26th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
@Michal: I had a look at various countries’ police symbols and they seem to vary between 7 and 9 points. I couldn’t decide whether to do this, rather abstract, police design or to draw a pair of handcuffs… maybe the handcuffs would go better with the fire department icon
I think the fire department icon is wholly appropriate to a bunch of guys who hang around waiting to slide down a big pole, unravel their hoses and squirt their nozzles all over the place. Or do I just have a dirty mind?
@ blackadder: Lol. I deliberately made them CC-BY-SA to be compatible with OSM. Is there any way to license them PD-compatible whilst keeping my right to be identified as the author?
@ bellboy: Yeah, those are all on the TODO list. Plus toilets, ports/piers, monuments, museums, nightclubs, clothing and book shops, taxi ranks and many more…
In general I prefer to make several distinct maps, each of which is designed for and well suited to a subset of users, rather than one customisable map which tries to be all things to all people. But feel free to use these icons on such a customisable map – that would be cool!
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