[OpenLayers-Users] Intuitive and good looking icons

[Richard Greenwood]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Zer <zer_matt at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi List!
>
> OpenLayers is great! Thanks to all of you that have been participating in
> the development. But... there is always things that can be better.
>
> We all know that the default icons used for the various controls, i.e. the
> navigation toolbar and editing toolbar, have seen their best days long ago.
> I know that it's pretty easy to replace them with your own icons, but how do
> you find, or make, icons that are good? They have to look nice and be
> intuitive so that the users understand what they are meant to be used for.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions of good icons to use for the various controls?
> I am specifically interested in
>
> - a better looking ZoomBox.
> - better looking Navigation, PanPanel and ZoomPanel.
> - an intuitive icon for the SelectFeature control.
> - an intuitive icon for zooming to the extent of a feature.
>
> I guess there is some sort of international standard that would be nice to
> follow for these tools? Does anyone know of a good site with icons like
> these? Or maybe we could all try and come up with some nice icons here?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Z

I am a traditionalist (old fart) that thinks buttons should look like
they did in Windows 3.0, ArcView 3.0, MapInfo 3.0.... If you like that
look you can grab mine at:
   http://www.co.sweet.wy.us/mapserver/map.html

-- 
Richard Greenwood
richard.greenwood at gmail.com
www.greenwoodmap.com