Using user defined icons to pindrop on maps

[Biopticon]

Hello,

Is it possible to use icons we designed to label map locations? For example, we are currently working on creating a map of water fountains in a town called Bergama in Turkey. Some of these fountains are from Hellenic, some from Roman and some from Ottoman times. If I create icons for each period fountains, I can label them accordingly on the map for increased visual effect. What do you think?

Cem

[ralfhauser]

1) You should upload the desired icons to commons wikimedia as suggested in https://github.com/water-fountains/proximap/issues/266 and put attributes in wikidata as in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64822020 2) in the wikidata entry of each fountain will have to add the statement "depicted by" (P1299) and reference the thumbnail's q-number

[ralfhauser]

From: Fatih Kurunaz Sent: Montag, 30. September 2019 10:16 To: Ralf Hauser Cc: 'Cem Girit'; Matthew Moy de Vitry

Hey Ralf,

These are the links of the icons:

Antiquity Period Fountains: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Icon_antiquity.png [[File:Icon antiquity.png|thumb|]]

Greek Priod Fountains: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Icon_greek.png [[File:Icon greek.png|thumb|]]

Ottoman Period Fountains: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Icon_ottoman.png [[File:Icon ottoman.png|thumb|]]

• https://h2o.do/tr-be?l=en&i=Q67141536 and https://h2o.do/tr-be?l=en&i=Q68792383 fountains are from the antiquity period • https://h2o.do/tr-be?l=en&i=Q67141558 is rom the Greek period. • All the other fountains are from Ottoman period. Thanks for all!

Fatih KURUNAZ

[mmmatthew]

I would propose to indicate the period with a qualifying label, similar to the date or wheelchair access icons:

The Mapbox API is not designed to display images with any source in the place of circle markers. "Symbols" are an option, but (i) it is not possible to scale them depending on the map zoom level and (ii) the symbol images need to be preprocessed into a sprite sheet before display. So direct linking to an image on wikimedia is not possible with the current map setup.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42322746/adding-url-images-to-mapbox-gl-js-layers/42353982#42353982

https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/style-spec/#layers-symbol

[Biopticon]

Hello Matthew,

            Certainly. Let’s not create extra work. I will ask Fatih to design based on the icon standards you have. Could please send us their specs so that he can do them right.

Sincerely,

Cem

From: mmmatthew notifications@github.com Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2019 3:28 AM

I would propose to indicate the period with a qualifying label, similar to the date or wheelchair access icons:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10126798/65942151-fd3f7880-e42c-11e9-9c21-6e80ad562931.png

The Mapbox API is not designed to display images with any source in the place of circle markers. "Symbols" are an option, but (i) it is not possible to scale them depending on the map zoom level and (ii) the symbol images need to be preprocessed into a sprite sheet before display. So direct linking to an image on wikimedia is not possible with the current map setup.

[mmmatthew]

Hi Cem, Just to make sure I was clear, here is a pic indicating where the period information would be:

If we go for this approach, the information will be visible in the list but not visible in the map view. (If a fountain is selected, then the information will also be visible below the fountain name.

We have some options to make the information more accessible: 3) we could add a filter with a dropdown to only display images of a certain period 4) we could display the information in the mouseover pop-up on the map:

Question: would these options be must-haves or just nice to have?

Finally, I have the impression that simple text labels will be more intuitive than symbols. Symbols are only useful if they are easily recognizable (i.e. no reflection needed to understand them). Are there standard symbols for historical eras?

[ralfhauser]

Re 3) the filter could be

or see https://github.com/water-fountains/proximap/issues/172

[ralfhauser]

and https://github.com/water-fountains/proximap/issues/248