New suggestions for Restaurants and Hotels

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New suggestion:
- winery (like Spanish bodegas)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by wjanabu...@gmail.com on 23 Aug 2009 at 9:12

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New suggestion:
- winery (like Spanish bodegas)
- resort/bungalow park

Original comment by wjanabu...@gmail.com on 23 Aug 2009 at 9:19

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Hello Willem,

I accepted your suggestions, everything is OK except the time to do them.
Check the site frequently !

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Nico

Original comment by nico.mol...@gmail.com on 26 Aug 2009 at 4:34

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hello Willem

Here is my tr for Winery : 
http://google-maps-icons.googlecode.com/files/winery.png
Hope you like because I didn't really understand the relation with "Bodegas" 
which is
a music instrument ?

Original comment by nico.mol...@gmail.com on 27 Aug 2009 at 9:15

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Original comment by nico.mol...@gmail.com on 27 Aug 2009 at 9:30

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Here's what the Oxford Dictionary gives on bodega:

bodega /bdayg/ 

  • noun (in Spanish-speaking countries) a cellar or shop selling wine, or both wine 
and groceries

And for example, in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, the home city of sherry, the 
production places for for example Tio Pepe and Pedro Domecq are called bodegas 
as 
well.

Your icon for winery suits perfectly :-)

Original comment by wjanabu...@gmail.com on 29 Aug 2009 at 7:16

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I made a "resort" icon : 
http://google-maps-icons.googlecode.com/files/winery.png

That's not the best effort, maybe it's too much things on a same icon.
Give your your opinion :)

Original comment by nico.mol...@gmail.com on 3 Sep 2009 at 2:55

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I attached a "bungalow park" here... not sure too. It's really complicated to 
design
this :)

Original comment by nico.mol...@gmail.com on 3 Sep 2009 at 3:03

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• bungalow.png

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true that it is complicated, but it's OK if you ask me

Original comment by wjanabu...@gmail.com on 3 Sep 2009 at 5:00

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3 barrels like these stacked could make a good icon for Bodega. We have lot's 
of 
those here in Spain.

http://www.provencestore.com/Vinfat.jpg

Original comment by myBCN...@gmail.com on 4 Sep 2009 at 11:31

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What I don't understand : is winery=bodega ?

Original comment by nico.mol...@gmail.com on 4 Sep 2009 at 12:46

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sort of. see comment 5 for Oxford dictionary, or Wikipedia: Bodega, Spanish 
term for 
a winery 

Original comment by wjanabu...@gmail.com on 6 Sep 2009 at 8:00

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and yes, 3 barrels would be great. that could also be used for brewery or 
distillery

Original comment by wjanabu...@gmail.com on 6 Sep 2009 at 8:01

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I decided to work a little bit on more hotel icons.

I wanted to created 4 hotels, in relation with the stars the hotel have.
http://google-maps-icons.googlecode.com/files/hotel5stars.png

What do you think ? be sincere :)

Original comment by nico.mol...@gmail.com on 9 Sep 2009 at 2:11

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I think this one can be better...  The Icons almost never look good if one part 
has
lots of transparency (the stars) and other don't (the hotel).  Makes the icon 
look
inharmonious some how if you know what I mean?  I have attached two more ideas 
to
play around with.  //Matthias

Original comment by myBCN...@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2009 at 11:14

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• hotel5stars1.png
• hotel5stars2.png

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You are right about the transparency...

Your ideas are good, especially the 1st one.

Original comment by nico.mol...@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2009 at 3:17

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The second one is very standard for Hotel signs as I'm sure you are aware of. 
Shall
we move on with that one and create 5 new icons, one for each star?  Will you 
do it?

Original comment by myBCN...@gmail.com on 15 Sep 2009 at 12:54

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To be honest, I am not really satisfied with the hotel icons we made.

First of all, I want to know if we are good with what we need :

 * "Hotel" (a bed, with some stars)
http://google-maps-icons.googlecode.com/issues/attachment?aid=-16655993407692660
74&name=hotel5stars1.png

 * "Bed & breakfast" or "Gîte" or "Pousada" (small house with a tree or something)
http://google-maps-icons.googlecode.com/files/hostel.png

 * "Youth Hostel" (bunk beds)
http://google-maps-icons.googlecode.com/files/youthhostel.png

 * "Resort" (building with pool)
http://google-maps-icons.googlecode.com/files/resort.png

 * "Motel" (building with car parking)

 * "Apartment hotel" (I don't know)

Tell me what you think.

Original comment by nico.mol...@gmail.com on 15 Sep 2009 at 7:46

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If I may suggest: If you go for the "star" hotel icons, I would keep a 
"generic" 
hotel icon as well. For some purposes categorising hotels based on stars is 
really a 
bridge to far.

Furthermore, I see that resort has been changed from 3 separate houses to 1 
building. But in the "colder" regions of Europe, resorts (or bungalow parks, as 
we 
use to call them in the Netherlands) are all about these small bungalows. So 
the 
original icon with the palm trees was already far fetched, but acceptable 
because of 
the 3 tiny bungalows, but now for me the icon has lost all meaning for the 
context 
where I intended to use it in. So I would request to keep an icon for "bungalow 
parks" as well. I still feel the original one created by Matthias 
(bungalow.png) is 
very suitable for that purpose.

Original comment by wjanabu...@gmail.com on 15 Sep 2009 at 9:32

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You are welcome Willem :)
Every idea is welcome too.

I see your point. You are talking about the bungalow I did :
http://google-maps-icons.googlecode.com/issues/attachment?aid=124088454962596504
3&name=bungalow.png

We can keep the two icons : resort and bungalow park.

I was intending to keep a generic hotel icon (without stars), like we did with 
the
restaurants. We have specific restaurants (chinese, mexican), and a "just a
restaurant" icon.

So it does :
 * "Hotel" (a bed, 6 icons : no star and 1 to 5 stars)
http://google-maps-icons.googlecode.com/issues/attachment?aid=-16655993407692660
74&name=hotel5stars1.png

 * "Bed & breakfast" or "Gîte" or "Pousada" (small house with a tree or something)
http://google-maps-icons.googlecode.com/files/hostel.png

 * "Youth Hostel" (bunk beds)
http://google-maps-icons.googlecode.com/files/youthhostel.png

 * "Bungalow park" (small houses with pool)
http://google-maps-icons.googlecode.com/issues/attachment?aid=-16655993407692660
74&name=hotel5stars1.png

 * "Resort" (building with pool)
http://google-maps-icons.googlecode.com/files/resort.png

 * "Motel" (building with car parking)

 * "Apartment hotel" (I don't know)

Original comment by nico.mol...@gmail.com on 15 Sep 2009 at 9:43

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just a note - the one you are using for "bed and breakfast" is used extensively 
on 
many maps to mean "town site" - I've even seen it mean "ghost town."

Seeing that on a map wouldn't even come close to meaning "bed and breakfast" to 
me - 
however, it seems like that type of symbol would really only have meaning to a 
very 
specialized type of map and in that case the "owner" could have it mean 
anything 
that he wanted it to mean.

Original comment by grgrj...@gmail.com on 16 Sep 2009 at 2:49

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Thank you Bob, you help us with your note, but now I am kinda lost :)

There is no hurry, ideas will come on time.

Original comment by nico.mol...@gmail.com on 16 Sep 2009 at 8:23

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I am thinking in creating icons for brands, like Mc Donald's, Starbucks. 

What is your opinion ?

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Nico

Original comment by nico.mol...@gmail.com on 14 Oct 2009 at 1:06

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Been thinking about the same!  Think it's a good idea.  Let's work on some 
ideas. //M

Original comment by myBCN...@gmail.com on 14 Oct 2009 at 1:51

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Brewery icon would be great.

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Original comment by myBCN...@gmail.com on 27 Apr 2010 at 12:27

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