Proposal for OSM Carto rendering template for new icons

[santasa99]

Proposal I would like to propose two new icons for carto rendering. It concerns three Tag pages and their respective tags:

I created icons for Tag pages {{tag|historic|stećak_necropolis}} and {{tag|historic|stećak}} with the icon File:Stecak icon osm 16.svg and {{tag|tower:type|clock}} with File:Clock-tower.svg

first for tags:

historic=stećak_necropolis historic=stećak

and second one for:

tower:type=clock

Why We lack icons that can properly illustrate these specific features.

Icons Tag:historic=stećak necropolis [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:historic%3Dste%C4%87ak_necropolis] and Tag:historic=stećak [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:historic%3Dste%C4%87ak] Tag:tower:type=clock [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tower:type%3Dclock]

Please, don't laugh at this, I am completely new here. :-)

[pnorman]

Normally these should be two different issues.

To add a rendering of something, there needs to be enough general adoption. There are 2 historic=stećak and 450 clock.

Additionally, neither icon will work at 14x14, which is what we use.

[imagico]

Thanks for the suggestions. Sketches like you made are valuable and fine as a start but are better placed on the OSM wiki. For actual use here we would be looking for something in line with our style guidelines.

Like @pnorman said - the tags you are proposing are all for the moment not in broad enough use to mandate rendering. For reference:

historic=stećak_necropolis https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:historic%3Dste%C4%87ak_necropolis 16 uses

historic=stećak https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:historic%3Dste%C4%87ak 2 uses

tower:type=clock https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tower:type%3Dclock 450 uses if rendered symbol should be consistent with that of tower:type=bell_tower

Like for tower:type=bell_tower there is the problem of competing concepts of mapping/tagging the clock/bell vs. mapping as a secondary tag to the built structure supporting it - for clocks the standalone amenity=clock is much more widespread - see #3577. For bells the opposite is the case (see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Bell) - though in reality, standalone bells are widespread in some parts of the world (like certain christian traditions). Documenting where tower:type=clock is used vs. where amenity=clock is used would be helpful for this.

It would definitively be good if we'd have more comprehensive rendering of historic features in the map (which depends a bit on broadly and consistently used taggings for those of course). But these two tags are not really the point to start with here.

Side note (off-topic here though) - it has been long standing informal convention to avoid using non-ASCII characters in classifying tag values. While this is not a firm requirement (neither here nor elsewhere) this is definitely something to consider when inventing new tags. But this just as a hint here - this is a discussion for a different place.

I am closing this as none of the tags suggested currently would find consensus support to be added in this style.

[santasa99]

Am I allowed to comment, more to see if some additional clarifications could be made, after closing?

[imagico]

Sure.