User:Usul/MapIconsNG
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Currently[edit]
Navit has now a bunch of map icons from different sources with various styles and without an cooperate design. This should be fixed with a own icon package, designed for good readability on small mobile devices.
Requirements[edit]
- SVG
- public domain recommend, CC still ok - to allow wide use and avoid licensing details
- flat perspective - recommend not to use shadows, glossy but maybe fading
- scalability - most designed for 32px, some for 16px (traffic lights, bus stops, ...)
- background?
Todo[edit]
- Why not an existing icon set?
- current ones mostly to complex or don't cover the whole amount of OpenStreetMap map features
- Which Icons are needed/nice to have/just extrem detail?
- POIs (esp. object represented with just an single node/point)
- road signs
- city furnitures
- Networks (Public transport, ...)
- Which ones need special types for additional subtypes?
- parking private or public
- Which def. not?
- ?Sport
- ?Landuse (filling with patterns instead?)
- est. Density of icons
- rules for icon subtitling at the map
- File Naming conventions
Current POI icons[edit]
Name | Category | Density city | Density countryside | |
---|---|---|---|---|
airport | ||||
attraction | ||||
bank (money) | ||||
bar (pub) | ||||
bench | ||||
biergarten | ||||
boat ramp (habour) | ||||
boundary stone | ||||
bus | ||||
cafe | ||||
camping | ||||
car dealer | ||||
castle | ||||
cemetery | ||||
church | ||||
cinema | ||||
danger | ||||
dumping station | ||||
exit (highway) | ||||
fast_food | ||||
firebrigade | ||||
fountain | ||||
fuel | ||||
Geocache | ||||
golf | ||||
heliport | ||||
hospital | ||||
hotel | ||||
hunting_stand | ||||
information | ||||
justice | ||||
crossing (rails) | ||||
library | ||||
mark (?) | ||||
memorial | ||||
military | ||||
mini_roundabout | ||||
museum | ||||
parking | ||||
peak | ||||
pharmancy | ||||
picnic | ||||
police | ||||
post (box and office) | ||||
potable water (drinking) | ||||
repair service (?) | ||||
resort (?tourism?) | ||||
restaurant | ||||
restroom (toilet) | ||||
ruins | ||||
school | ||||
shelter | ||||
shop_grocery | ||||
shopping | ||||
skiing | ||||
stadium | ||||
swimming | ||||
tec_common (?) | ||||
telephone | ||||
theater (classical) | ||||
toilets | ||||
tower | ||||
town hall | ||||
traffic signals | ||||
trailerpark | ||||
viewpoint | ||||
wifi | ||||
zoo |
UI OSD Icons
- flag (destination)
- menu
- nav destination
- nav roundabount
- toggle fullscreen
- zoom
New iconset[edit]
must have[edit]
This icons are very essential for a navigation system
- density n suburb, n village, n towns, 1 bigcities, n megacities, n county, n state, n country
Name | Category | Density city | Density countryside | |
---|---|---|---|---|
airport | transport | 1 bigcities | n state | |
attraction | ||||
bank (money) | money | n suburb | 1 towns | |
bar (pub) | gastronomy | n suburb | 1 village | |
boat ramp (habour) | transport | 1 city | n state | |
cafe | gastronomy | n suburb | 1 village | |
camping | ||||
car dealer | ||||
castle | ||||
church | ||||
cinema | ||||
danger | ||||
exit (highway) | ||||
fast_food | ||||
fountain | ||||
fuel | ||||
Geocache | ||||
hospital | ||||
hotel | ||||
information | ||||
crossing (rails) | ||||
library | ||||
mark (?) | ||||
memorial | ||||
mini_roundabout | ||||
museum | ||||
parking | ||||
peak | ||||
pharmancy | ||||
picnic | ||||
police | ||||
post (box and office) | ||||
repair service (?) | ||||
resort (?tourism?) | ||||
restaurant | ||||
ruins | ||||
school | ||||
shop_grocery | ||||
shopping | ||||
stadium | ||||
swimming | ||||
tec_common (?) | ||||
telephone | ||||
theater (classical) | ||||
toilets | ||||
tower | ||||
town hall | ||||
viewpoint | ||||
zoo |
nice to have[edit]
It would be nice to have this icons, too. But this ones are more optional/luxury because they represent details.
- parking underground
- parking building
- traffic signals
- warnings: (max_height, hazardous,...)
- firebrigade
- justice
- bakery,butcher, Convenience, tabaco
- loundary,
- emergency phone
not[edit]
This POIs are to specific for a general map style:
- heliport
- golf, skiing - for what spec. sports?
- biergarten - same as pub icon
- restroom (toilet) - unknown OSM feature
- wifi - is an POI attribute but not a POI itself
Ousourcing to spec. external POI layers:
hiking[edit]
- hunting_stand
- potable water (drinking)
- shelter, picnik_site, bench
- boundary stone
- everything that help orientation (towers, poles, wind power generators)
caravaning[edit]
- trailerpark - unknown OSM feature
- dumping station
generic[edit]
The following POIs can be represented with general simple icons or with filling
- bus,tram, train - simple dots
- cemetery, military
Filename[edit]
- topic is plural
- topic(_Countrycode)_dimensionX.png
Questions[edit]
- some (official) icons depend on country (e.g. pharmacy is red cross in Germany, but rod of escaplus in the US)
- what about icons for popular brands e.g. supermarkets?
- What about switching map detail levels?
- How about increasing icon size on the fly? (e.g. driving near to a crossing makes the traffic lights bigger)
- What to do in night mode? greyscale?
- What can we offer?
- Use OSM icon color schema?