Please render amenity=public_bookcase

[DigitaleAllmende]

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dpublic_bookcase

It would be nice to have a special icon for public bookcases, maybe a hand combined with a book to symbolize book sharing.

[pnorman]

With 29 usages, it hasn't gained enough traction among mappers to add yet another icon to the style for it.

[HolgerJeromin]

many are tagged as library or other tags.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_öffentlicher_Bücherschränke
has a nice collection in several countries. So the resources are available to push the right tagging.

[DigitaleAllmende]

@HolgerJeromin "many are tagged as library or other tags"
yes, and there are many to be tagged: http://openbookcase.org/

that's why I would like to have a special icon for them

[gravitystorm]

Even if they were widely tagged, we need to draw a line as to how many different features we render on a general-purpose style. Public_bookcases are great, but would be shown as a specialist rendering.

[Adamant36]

@kocio-pl, any chance of reopening this now that there are 3,074 uses of it? Id really like to see them rendered and I think @Tomasz-W could come up with a good icon for them. It sounds like some of them are being missed tagged as regular libraries to be rendered also and maybe having an icon would help with that.

[kocio-pl]

Let's examine it first. They might be outdoor or indoor facility ("shelves in the hall of a community center or on the external wall of a library.") and their location inside some other objects together with their small size makes them more clutter-prone.

[Tomasz-W]

Icon proposal:

[kocio-pl]

Well, I'm not sure where I took the indoor possibility from, but OSM wiki defines it as "a type of street furniture containing books", which means strictly outdoor object. I would render it on z19+, given its size, and I like this icon proposition. @Tomasz-W could you publish the vector code?

[Adamant36]

I'll do the PR for it. I've been wanting them to show up in my area for a while now.

[Tomasz-W]

@Adamant36 Here you go: https://gist.github.com/Tomasz-W/164f3f591a59e33d6d6663e2b0564033

I suggest amenity-brown for it.