On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 03:41:50PM +0100, Martin Simon wrote:
2011/1/31 Marko Mäkelä <marko.makela@iki.fi>:
If nobody can suggest a better symbol for amenity=shelter, I would remove amenity=shelter altogether from the default style. There seems to be some agreement that amenity=shelter may be too inaccurate tagging for the tourism or hiking related shelters.
I have to disagree; amenity=shelter was meant to be hiking and tourism related from the start. (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Shelter)
You are right, it is probably best to keep a 0x2b.. symbol for amenity=shelter for backward compatibility. It will take a while until all amenity=shelter that could be tourism=* have been converted. Until then, we just have to live with the bed symbol on amenity=shelter, or use a custom TYP file. Sorry Peter Hendricks and others who feel amused or offended by the bed symbols on amenity=shelter in urban areas, the solution is to redefine the amenity=shelter icon by using a TYP file.
Side note: the unsearchable 0x6412 'hiker symbol' could be a good choice for some minor hiking feature. I think that sites where overnighting is possible do require a searchable symbol.
While I think it's good to distinguish simple structures like shelters from fully equipped overnighting places, it would be cool if shelters were searchable, so you can do a search for the nearest shelter when weather turns bad...
As an all-weather, all-year bicyclist, I agree with you. This was one of the main reasons why I added the rules for highlighting shelter=yes/no in bus stop names. Best regards, Marko