Add rendering for historic=milestone

[wilmaed]

Historic Milestones are still useful for orientation and are good visible:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:historic=milestone

Taginfo: 3 913 objects
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/?key=historic&value=milestone

OSMAND is using this Icon:

[kocio-pl]

Sounds sane in general:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Ahistoric%3Dmilestone

[Tomasz-W]

What about reusing obelisk or guidepost icon in different colour?

[Adamant36]

@Tomasz-W, that's what I was thinking. Reusing the obelisk icon sounds good. It would have to be a little shorter and wider though. I think milestones are closer to the ground and more round then obelisks tend to be.

[wilmaed]

Please not the guidepost icon.

Anything, that looks like a massive (and often high) block of stone.

[Adamant36]

Still shorter and fatter then an obelisk though.


Their different definitionally also.

Milestone "a stone set up beside a road to mark the distance in miles to a particular place."

Versus

Obelisk "a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top."

[wilmaed]

Something like this?:

https://github.com/wilmaed/foo/blob/master/meilenstein2.svg

[dieterdreist]

or like these: http://stockarch.com/files/13/03/mile_stone.jpg https://sensiseeds.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Featured_Milestone_Engraved.jpg

[wilmaed]

or like these: http://stockarch.com/files/13/03/mile_stone.jpg https://sensiseeds.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Featured_Milestone_Engraved.jpg

left: milestone
right: monument

?

[dieterdreist]

Am Fr., 28. Dez. 2018 um 13:00 Uhr schrieb wilmaed <notifications@github.com

: or like these: http://stockarch.com/files/13/03/mile_stone.jpg https://sensiseeds.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Featured_Milestone_Engraved.jpg [image: versus] <https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31799538/50514710-475f8c00-0aa0-11e9-9a64-d91bc19db7f8.png> left: milestone right: monument

milestone without the base, and obviously smaller than the monument icon. There are lots of milestones out there, they should not be too prominent.

[wilmaed]

milestone without the base

other similar historic icons have a base. is there a special meaning or just a case of design/style?

Historic icons with base:

memorial:
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/symbols/historic/memorial.svg
statue:
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/symbols/historic/statue.svg
shrine:
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/symbols/historic/shrine.svg
obelisk:
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/symbols/historic/obelisk.svg
monument:
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/symbols/historic/monument.svg
bust:
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/symbols/historic/bust.svg

There are lots of milestones out there

there are only 3900 entries in the database.

Do you mean historic=boundary_stone (28500 entries)?
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:historic=boundary_stone

An interesting historic-value either, but much smaller.

Should we consider the icon-size to a future historic=boundary_stone ?

[dieterdreist]

sent from a phone

On 28. Dec 2018, at 16:35, wilmaed ***@***.***> wrote: other similar historic icons have a base. is there a special meaning or just a case of design/style?

while a monument, bust, statue etc. will usually have a base, a milestone will not have it, typically. In terms of meaning I would imagine without a base it seems coming from out of the ground rather than being laid down like on a base. A base generally gives more importance.

[Tomasz-W]

Icon proposal:

(current obelisk icon to compare)

Gist link: https://gist.github.com/Tomasz-W/7c9bae79e3e5aad574c5cab99a370c4d

[TonyS999]

Personally like the icon without a base, coming out of the ground is what they do around where I live.

[jeisenbe]

Perhaps it could be even smaller? It’s quite similar to the historic=monument icon shape and size (but the lack of a base helps).

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[teschlg]

The icon suggested by Tomasz-W looks fine.