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?
