Query Features button looks like a help button

[1ec5]

The Query Features button is labeled with a question mark, which makes it look like a help button:

Since iD places its help button in roughly the same spot, iD uses a bookmark-in-book icon, which is difficult to discern. openstreetmap/iD#4650 would turn it into a question mark.

The query button’s function reminds me of click-to-select functions found in various developer tools, such as the Inspect Element function in browser DOM inspectors. In Firefox and Chrome, the button’s icon depicts an arrow cursor pointing at a box, while Safari uses a crosshair icon:

Inspect buttons in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari

In this context, I think the crosshair could be confused with geolocation, but the pointer arrow should be pretty self-explanatory. Unlike the existing geolocation button, this arrow would more closely resemble a mouse cursor (pointing to the northwest and having a shaft).

/cc @bhousel

[tomhughes]

Happy to accept a PR with a better icon.

[manfredbrandl]

I suggest, that the icon should look like the cursor after klicking the query feature:

[tomhughes]

Well that isn't how my cursor looks... The cursor shape is browser specific.

[tomhughes]

To explain more the cursor is styled as cursor: help which is a builtin cursor and despite https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/cursor showing an example much like your one what Firefox actually renders is a simple question mark with an arrow at the base.

[manfredbrandl]

All my browsers (IE 11.0.9600.18837, Firefox 53.0.7, Chrome 63.0.3239.84) show the same icon.
@tomhughes What do you think of my suggested icon-shape, even if the cursor may look different on some browsers?

[tomhughes]

Well firefox on linux has always done what I described for me but I don't seem to be able to capture a picture of it!

Looks fine as an icon to me anyway.

[manfredbrandl]

Capturing the cursor seems to be difficult. On Windows the utility psr.exe which is usually used to produce an bug report including screen-video-capture helped. Isn't there also a screen-video-capture utility including cursor in Linux?

[tomhughes]

Apparently it comes from the gnome theme:

[bhousel]

I’ll just redraw the icon from scratch. This is what I do for most of the iD graphics. It’s easier than trying to capture/extract the cursor image, and anyway then the license of the produced icon is clear.