Horse riding icon

[Hufkratzer]

There will be an icon needed for leisure=horse_riding presets in iD, see
openstreetmap/iD#3619

JOSM uses this one:
https://josm.openstreetmap.de/browser/trunk/images/presets/leisure/horse_riding.svg

In iD there are similar icons used for highway=bridleway and route=horse, see here:
https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/blob/c8e4f76c230512dc82dc060bf337e3ba489b113e/svg/iD-sprite.src.svg

[aparlato]

First Draft

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[Hufkratzer]

Hmm. Thanks for the information, but the horse riding icons that I mentioned initially look better to me. Is it necessary that the rider and the tail of the horse are disconnected from the horse? Can't the horse have ears? (The maki-dog has.) Why are the legs of the horse so short and why is the neck so long? It doesn't look like a real horse to me. Why can't the rider sit straight? Can't he have arms?

Here are some external links that perhaps can explain better what I mean:

• http://horses.about.com/od/learntoride/ht/properseat.htm - How To Sit in The Saddle Correctly
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVnq-vNKDps - Intro Movie The Horse Soldiers

[aparlato]

Draft 2

Definitely getting better. Currently working through some pathfinder issues to clean things up.

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[Hufkratzer]

Much better, thanks. Maybe you can improve the rider a bit more, please look at this page :

The upper body should remain straight but not stiff with the head looking forward. It should be possible to draw a straight line from the shoulder to the hip to the foot of the rider.

I think, the position of the feet is not so important in the icon, I don't know if it can be improved. But the head should better sit straight on top of the body, like here.

[aparlato]

Draft 3

Two here for comparison

A)

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OR

B: which is blockier/made of of more components in a way that might feel more appropriate?

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Still working on this. Looking at it now, I'm not really liking the second version posted here.

I'm leaning towards a combination like below.

[Hufkratzer]

What about making the rider less tall in the 15px version so that 11px and 15px versions are more similar?, something like

The second version would only make sense with a 4th leg for the horse, something like this:
(edit: compare traffic sign in OSM-Key:horse)
(But since the other animals in maki (dog, cow) also have just 3 legs I assume the first version fits better into this concept.)

[Hufkratzer]

The front leg(s) should either be straight or angled as you can see here (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equine_conformation which has more examples)

[aparlato]

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[Hufkratzer]

Horses lift their tail like this typically before they poop,
see video https://youtu.be/ir97e1wsFO8

[aparlato]

This was done.