Render escape games and games shops

[dawagner]

I suggest adding icons for leisure=escape_game, shop=games and possibly other. It seems reasonable that they would share a same icon considering that they are not so frequently used yet.

I'd find the icon of a 6-sided dice appropriate.

[dieterdreist]

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On 29. Aug 2018, at 23:31, David Wagner notifications@github.com wrote:

I suggest adding icons for leisure=escape_game, shop=games and possibly other

for now it is only other that meets the requirements, because the first is currently used about 300 times and the second 600 times, while a rough limit of this style is more than 2000 of something in order to consider adding it. It is a general style.

[kocio-pl]

Both are raising, so it's probably only a matter of time. However we need a real icon too and we can start with designing it now.

[Tomasz-W]

6-sided dice icon:

It's not working for me, so I would stay with shop-vlolet generic dot for shop=games. For leisure=escape_game I propose old key shape (eg. https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_3545/35456913.jpg) or leisure-green generic dot.

[HolgerJeromin]

Oh, @Tomasz-W painted the klingon logo :-)

[kocio-pl]

Too small and detailed for me. I would rather go with running man icon, probably with an arrow, but green running man is already used for leisure=fitness_centre.

[jeisenbe]

That looks like a 20-sided die? Good idea, but too complicated

How about a cube-shaped, six-sided die?

Or would that be too similar to gambling casinos?

On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 4:14 AM Tomasz Wójcik notifications@github.com wrote:

6-sided dice icon:

[image: shop games] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25656654/45775618-9780b400-bc50-11e8-8d3c-661e332708f1.png

It's not working for me, so I would stay with shop-vlolet generic dot for shop=games. For leisure=escape_game I propose old key shape (eg. https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_3545/35456913.jpg) or leisure-green generic dot.

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[Tomasz-W]

related to https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/2930 (possible to use the same rendering)

[Adamant36]

What about the green running man with a half open door covering the back of his body, like he's running out of it. I think it would fit and it might be doable.

[Tomasz-W]

I think icon like that might be confusing for this feature. It's called "escape game", but as I know, usually it's not about literally running away from something, but about to patiently solving some jigsaws etc. Another possible problem is that we are planning leisure-green sport icons for some of leisure=sports_centre + sport=* combinations, then this symbol would be propably wrongly considered as some dyscipline icon.

[kocio-pl]

So maybe green question mark?

[Adamant36]

@Tomasz-W, yeah but you solve the problems to get out the door and escape the room eventually. Plus, I actually got that from doing a Google search for escape games. What about any of these? https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=escape%20game I like the key and lock thing maybe.

[Tomasz-W]

I'll try with some old-looking key shape.

[polarbearing]

red man in door looks like an emergency exit.

just a wiki link for reference https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Descape_game

As for games shops, we already have dice in the casino icon.

[meased]

A lock would be very recognizable: combined with leisure-green, I think would get the idea across.

[polarbearing]

Such lock symbol is frequently used for secure (SSL) connections. I would be puzzled to recognise games here. What about a keyhole then?

[dieterdreist]

are we seriously discussing an icon for a leisure feature with not even 400 uses worldwide?

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[Adamant36]

@dieterdreist, how many of these places do you think there even are in the world? Id imagine its a rather niche thing in the first place.

[dieterdreist]

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On 22. Sep 2018, at 23:56, Adamant36 notifications@github.com wrote:

@dieterdreist, how many of these places do you think there even are in the world? Id imagine its a rather niche thing in the first place.

exactly, and the same amount of people will be interested in them. I would not include them for the moment, maybe later if it really becomes a thing

[Adamant36]

Probably a good call. Especially for escape games.

[Tomasz-W]

That's also the reason why I'm still proposing introducing leisure-green generic dot. At the one hand it may be useful to somebody to find escape game place on map, but on the other I can understand an argument that special icon for something with 400 uses would be inappropriate. Similar problem with some shop=* rare tags was resolved this way, and it works good.

[HolgerJeromin]

Ask average people what an escape game is. I dont think you will hear the right answer often.

[Adamant36]

At least a dot would mean the names of the places would be rendered. I think that should be the baseline. Otherwise, people aren't going to know by looking at the map if the place should be added or not.

[kocio-pl]

Green dot for leisure makes sense for me. Amenity is too wide to use brown dots, but we have dots for shops and offices already and I've just proposed orange dot for gastronomy (see #3410).

Maybe there are some other leisure objects for which we might also use green dot?

[Tomasz-W]

Maybe there are some other leisure objects for which we might also use green dot?

@kocio-pl Related to #2930

[dawagner]

A generic icon (dot) + the name for uncommon leisure tags sounds fine to me.

[kocio-pl]

Would you like to try making the code then? We have still too few coders active, so it's worth trying!

[ghost]

And lasser tag?

[kocio-pl]

I don't understand, what do you mean?

[Chepycou]

Any news on this ? (Sorry to revive some old discussion, but I've mapped a few escape games only to see them deleted because “they already existed”)

[sumpfralle]

Currently there are more than 2000 nodes tagged as leisure=escape_game.

And I would guess, that there are a quite a few Escape Rooms out there, which were mis-tagged by their operators in order to force them to appear on the main map, e.g.:

• https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6157489988
• https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/11107598997
• https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4838543821
• https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/9083719440

(a few findings after typing "Escape Room" into the search form of osm.org)

I guess, rendering leisure=escape_games would probably stop people from mis-using tags just for rendering their business on the default map.