Openstreetmap-carto: healthcare=laboratory has no icon just a dot

[532910]

Bad:

Good:

[polarbearing]

If you consider this style bad, why do you use it?

[kocio-pl]

I don't think that everything should have an icon in OSM Carto. It's important that the color of the dot is not random and says something (red -> health, dark blue -> office, violet -> shop), but it can stay this way.

It would help if you have some design we could use, otherwise I think this ticket should be closed.

[532910]

If you consider this style bad, why do you use it?

I don't use it.

[Adamant36]

Outside of echoing what @polarbearing said, you should be more specific. "a lot of other poi" is way to vague. There's obviously going to some things that don't have icon due to either low numbers or just being to specialized for this style. So which POI's specifically would you like to see added? healthcare=laboratory has over a thousand uses and it could be something like a beaker (the container. Not the Sesame Street character). So that's a possibility at least.

Edit: If you don't use it, its kind of pointless to complain about it then. And no, we can't.

[532910]

It would help if you have some design we could use, otherwise I think this ticket should be closed.

Could you just use same icons as in iD editor?

[kocio-pl]

They don't work for me in this style.

[matkoniecz]

Could you just use same icons as in iD editor?

In cases where icon works well and license of image file is CC0 or public domain - we can use it. But you should be more specific.

[Tomasz-W]

As we have a lot of things to show in OSM-Carto, we have to show some of them in simplest and less prominent possible way (e.g. by dots for healtcare and office objects or squares for public transport stops). If we would use dedicated icons for all features, map propably would look like this:

[matkoniecz]

I changed the title to make this issue fixable. If some other tags should be rendered with icon - open an issue for them if no issue exists for them.

I considered closing this as declined and opening new one for just laboratory, but this version should be less confusing.

[thep]

healthcare=laboratory has over a thousand uses and it could be something like a beaker (the container. Not the Sesame Street character). So that's a possibility at least.

I asked medical lab people and they said a microscope should represent their work best. A beaker or a flask could still be read as a chemical lab instead.

[Adamant36]

A side view of a microscope probably wouldn't be to hard of an icon to make. It would probably be easier to tell its a lab
icon compared to a beaker also.

[jeisenbe]

Note that we cannot render anything tagged under the healthcare=* key until the next database reload. This could happen sooner rather than later, but someone will need to submit a PR which adds healthcare=* as a polygon key in the openstreetmap-carto.lua file. See #3611

[Adamant36]

Note that we cannot render anything tagged under the healthcare=* key until the next database reload. This could happen sooner rather than later, but someone will need to submit a PR which adds healthcare=* as a polygon key in the openstreetmap-carto.lua file.

Hopefully correctly done in PR #4005