map-icons

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This is the general OSM Map-Icons directory. All the icons in these directories have to get an entry into the map-features.xml file. So we have one common place for all icons used for drawing maps.

Discussions showed that probably the best Licence for all the icons would be a PD-Style Licence. Because this wouldn't interfeer with any use which is planned. So we expect new icons inserted here to be PD-Style-Licence.

We currently have six subdirectories representing the six icon schemes(classic,square.big,square.small,svg,japan). This means that the user can choose between those six (for now) styles for rendering. The styles are each represented in there directories:

• classic: normally no frames, no borders, transparent but if you are unsure put the icons here
• square.big: these icons all have a square shaped frame, where the color of the frame tells which category they belong to.
• square.small: similar to the above(square.big), only smaller
• svg: these are vectorgrafics in svg-format.
• jp: these are japanese map-sign, as found in openclipart and wikipedia For the two svg directories there also exists an thumbnails directory which holds thumbnails for easier viewing on a website, ... These thumbnails directories (svg_tn, jp_tn) are only created by the build process. This is the reason they are not found in svn (any more). The build proccess also takes care of filling up directories from others if it thinks this is usefull and possible.

Inside these directories the icons are structured by category. Where every category has it's own sub-directory. There are the following top-categories: - accommodation - education - food - geocache - health - leisure - misc - money - nautical - people - place - religion - rendering - routing - service - shop - sightseeing - sport - transport - unknown - vehicle - waypoint - wlan Each of these categories except 'unknown' can have sub-categories. If you 're adding more icons you should try to put them into one of the existing categories. For each (sub-)category we have a category-icon which is named like the category directory. So for example, for the directory

Additional files:

• index_*.html gives a nice overview of the available Icons with descriptions

The Tools in this directory are used to maintain the map-icons directory: copy_icons_to_dir.sh <Verzeichnis> Ist eine Art mini "make install" update_thumbnails.pl erzeugt die beiden Verzeichnisse svg_tn und jp_tn aus den svg Dateien merge-icons-all-from-svg2classic2square.sh versucht in dem angegebenen Verzeichnis So viele Icons durch mischen der einzelnen Dateien aus den unterschiedlichen Themes zu erzeugen. Sollte man auf keinen Fall im Hauptverzeichnis anwenden, wenn man geänderte Icons dort hat, denn sonst kennt man sich danach gar nicht mehr aus. Update_thumbnails sollte vorher ausgeführt werden, denn von dort wird auch versucht die Daten zu holen. copy_icons_to_debian_package_dirs.pl Verteilt die Icons in build/* in die debian packages

create_makefile.sh Ist geblieben und erzeugt immer noch das alte automake Makefile.am