Help talk:Extension:Kartographer/Icons

The icon for "hospital" is needlessly religious. It would be more appropriate to use a religiously neutral and widely recognised symbol: the Star of Life. Unfortunately that is (a) copyright and (b) too complicated for an icon. So I want to propose a close analogue: <big>✱</big> (U+2731 ✱ HEAVY ASTERISK).

To understand how the current icon looks from non-Christian perspective, see the Red Cross and Red Crescent symbols.

What needs to happen for this proposal to be adopted?

Hi, no icon exists for "Lake". Please add it, Thanks

Hi, can we create icons that are numbered, like an icon "1", and "2", etc.? This would be helpful for maps with multiple points on them.

Yes, the "marker-symbol" property accepts numbers between 1 and 99. e.x.: "marker-symbol": "81",

In the Maki set there is an icon i, can this be added too to the Kartographer icons set?

@Romaine it is now available

Hi - I'm not sure about the technical feasibility of this, but can more icons be added or changed? My input:

• The school icon should resemble common school icons (more easily identifiable)
• The church icon should resemble common church icons (more easily identifiable)

• The synagogue icon should resemble common synagogue icons (more easily identifiable)
• The library icon would look better if it incorporated a building and a book/books, see two of these
• There are no icons for hotels, bridges, apartment/office buildings/skyscrapers, fire stations? Definitely more prominent to be used on Wikipedia maps than about half of these!

Thanks

We are currently pinned to an older version of the maki icons. Mostly because there has been no real definition of what icon names should be supported (perpetually) and because there isn't a dedicated team working on maps.

Okay but does that prevent anyone with the technical ability from seeing these suggestions and implementing any?

who would be these magical people ? :D

One can hope. Someone was evidently capable of creating most of this, so I'll hope someone qualified reads it before it gets archived...

I suppose updating these icons to the current Maki icons would solve some, but not all of these. I posted to GitHub for the rest...

I posted to the Maki forum with more details, even if it looks like this won't be updated. See https://github.com/mapbox/maki/issues/483

This also really needs icons for elevators and stairs, for articles like the High Line.

It would also be great if the icons could be directly shown, rather than inside the 3D placemark thing. I'd like to simply have a 2D circle/spot on the map, rather than a 3D placemark with whatever icon in it...

It's upsetting we have icons for 'mobile phone', 'wastebasket', 'ricket', 'scooter', and 'pharmacy', things that I don't see used on Wikipedia or really any wiki spaces, while we don't have the immensely, immediately useful 'bridge' or 'skyscraper'...

And done.. thanks to WMDE

Awesome. I think this solves most of my presented issues.

Hi there, we need some new icons which are not available in the latest version, for our "Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography."

Iconic for "oxbow lake" - U-shaped bodies of water formed when river meanders cut meanders, creating a horseshoe-shaped curved lake.

Icon for "confluence of rivers" - refers to the point where two or more rivers meet and flow together.

Icon for the headwaters where the water originates.

and so on related to the topic of the project.

Thank You

Please make it possible to manually select letters, instead of only having them automatically. With numbers this is possible, with letters not...

Hey @Mliu92, I appreciate the addition of the icons. I tried to do something similar a few weeks ago. The problem I ran into is that the Maki icons on Commons are a newer set version than what we're using on Wikimedia maps. Some of the icons have changed in the latest version (see the icon for "bank" as an example) and some the labels have changed, like "london-underground". That's why some icons are missing. I'm going to revert your contribution for now since while it's a good idea, it doesn't match the current state of things and might cause confusion to folks trying to use the icons. If the team responsible for maps updates the icons to use the latest version (task T145475) then I'll restore your additions.

Thanks - I do not mind the reversion; I did it because I was having trouble jumping back and forth between the map view and the table view (with the icon names). Are the older Maki icon files that are being used on Wikimedia maps available for download? We could put them on Commons under a subcategory, like :c:Category:Modified Maki icons (or a similar subcategory, like "Superseded Maki icons") and then use the modified/older icons in the table. Cheers.

>Are the older Maki icon files that are being used on Wikimedia maps available for download?

I see you found them before I did. Great! Thank you and let me know if you need any help.