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Change icon for tourism=chalet #5063

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Breen5 opened this issue Feb 13, 2025 · 3 comments
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Change icon for tourism=chalet #5063

Breen5 opened this issue Feb 13, 2025 · 3 comments

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@Breen5
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Breen5 commented Feb 13, 2025

There is a mountain triangle (that's what it looks) on the icon. A tourism=chalet is not exclusively used for a rented house in the mountains. It can be used for a rented house in general e.g. a rented house on the beach. The mountain triangle should therefore be removed from the icon.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Chalet.svg

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dchalet

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imagico commented Feb 14, 2025

The symbol for tourism=chalet could use re-working - but that is not an easy task considering the design context of other accommodation symbols and the physical variety of charlets.

IIRC this was tried in the past without success.

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Breen5 commented Feb 15, 2025

I don't know anything about icon design but can't we simply remove the triangle and keep the house? This would certainly look better for a rented house on the beach.

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imagico commented Feb 16, 2025

but can't we simply remove the triangle and keep the house?

We could, but that would

  • change the symbol, requiring map users to re-learn symbology
  • make the symbol much less recognizable
  • not actually bring us any closer to a good symbol suitable for the feature in question and fitting into our overall system of accommodation symbols

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