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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?

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Star_of_life2.svg

Is marked as public domain Mkouklis(2) (talk) 13:27, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

True but surely it is far too complex to use as an icon, especially a map icon where it has to fit in the "tennis racket" symbol?

Of course if someone is willing to develop it and see the effect, go right ahead. The 'heavy asterisk' is plan B. --JMF (talk) 23:30, 5 May 2024 (UTC)