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Msemm at 18:17, 27 January 2015

2015-01-27T18:17:49Z

2014-03-16T15:41:27Z

‎Request for cross check by the OSM community

2014-03-16T14:46:54Z

‎Request for cross check by the OSM community

2014-03-16T14:42:55Z

2014-03-16T14:41:10Z

‎Purpose of osm-icons.org

2014-03-16T14:40:25Z

‎Aiming to compile a complete set of OSM POI icons

2014-03-16T14:35:18Z

‎Recommended keys and presets for each map feature

2014-03-16T14:34:25Z

‎Aiming to compile a complete set of OSM POI icons

2014-03-16T14:31:32Z

‎Purpose of osm-icons.org

2014-03-16T14:29:50Z

‎Request for cross check by the OSM community

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 The .zip file with all 1,000 icons as well as the .txt files with the commonly used key-value pairs can be found <u>[[Media:OSM-icons.zip|here]]</u>.<br>
 Please unzip the zip file in the root directory of your hard drive. Otherwise unzipping might fail because of the length of some of the file names.
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 Please don´t forget to mention the icon number which is the only unique reference available for each icon.
-The .zip file with all 1,000 icons as well as the .txt file with the commonly used key-value pairs can be found <u>[[Media:OSM-icons.zip|here]]</u>.<br>
+The .zip file with all 1,000 icons as well as the .txt files with the commonly used key-value pairs can be found <u>[[Media:OSM-icons.zip|here]]</u>.<br>
-Please explode the zip file in the root directory of your hard drive. Otherwise unzipping might fail because of the length of some of the file names.
+Please unzip the zip file in the root directory of your hard drive. Otherwise unzipping might fail because of the length of some of the file names.
 |}

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 # other comments
-The benefit of the OSM community of this work will be, that it becomes much easier for developers of OSM editors providing support for all map features widely used by the OSM community.
+The benefit of the OSM community of this work will be, that it becomes much easier for developers of OSM editors providing support for all map features widely used by the OSM community. This means, that these developers can then focus on implementing their software instead of hazzling around with icons.
 In case you have suggestions for improving the icons, assigned key-value pairs, presets of values or feature groups, please send an email to <u>[https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Markus59 Markus]</u>.<br>
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 The .zip file with all 1,000 icons as well as the .txt file with the commonly used key-value pairs can be found <u>[[Media:OSM-icons.zip|here]]</u>.<br>
-Please explode the zip file in the root directory of your hard drive. Otherwise it might fail because of the length of some of the file names.
+Please explode the zip file in the root directory of your hard drive. Otherwise unzipping might fail because of the length of some of the file names.
 |}

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 <div style="font-size: 130%;">
-'''The main purpose of this website is to provide a <u>[[Icons|set of icons]]</u> including related key-value pairs that is suitable to be used in OSM editors.'''
+'''The main purpose of osm-icons.org is providing a <u>[[Icons|set of icons]]</u> including key-value pairs suitable to be used in OSM editors.'''
 '''In addition, the icons can be used for any kind of OSM maps for displaying POIs.'''

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 <div style="font-size: 130%;">
-The main purpose of this website is to provide a <u>[[Icons|set of icons]]</u> including related key-value pairs that is suitable to be used in OSM editors.
+'''The main purpose of this website is to provide a <u>[[Icons|set of icons]]</u> including related key-value pairs that is suitable to be used in OSM editors.'''
-In addition, the icons can be used for any kind of OSM maps for displaying POIs.
+'''In addition, the icons can be used for any kind of OSM maps for displaying POIs.'''
 </div>

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 While researching the currently available icon sets I found, that the icons originally designed by [http://www.sjjb.co.uk/mapicons/ SJJB] would be the best starting point for creating a complete set of icons.
-I then researched with the help of the wonderful [http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/ TAGINFO service] which icons with at least 1,000 occurrences in the OSM planet file were missing in the SJJB collection and finally added to the originally 302 SJJB SVG icons more than 700 newly designed or optimized SVG icons, sometimes based on existing ideas, sometimes with completely new motives. License information can be found in the <u>[[Icons|grid with all icons]]</u>.
+I then researched with the help of the wonderful [http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/ TAGINFO service] which icons with at least 1,000 occurrences in the OSM planet file were missing in the SJJB collection and finally added to the originally 302 SJJB SVG icons more than 700 newly designed or optimized SVG icons, sometimes based on existing ideas, sometimes with completely new motives. License information for each icon can be found in the <u>[[Icons|grid with all icons]]</u>.
 To each icon I assigned a randomly selected unique 5-digit icon number which can be found on the left side of the icon file name.

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 ==Recommended keys and presets for each map feature==
-After creating a set of more than 1,000 icons in total I added to each map feature, represented by an icon, recommended key-value pairs and presets for some values. These key-value pairs were stored in the file name of the icon for easy handling.<br>
+After creating a set of more than 1,000 icons in total I added to each map feature, represented by an icon, recommended key-value pairs and presets for some values. These key-value pairs were stored in the file name of the icon for as easy as possible handling.<br>
 The information regarding the key-value pairs was mainly retrieved from OSM wiki information, JOSM presets, TAGINFO findings and some other OSM related sources.