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==== Background Although the documentation says: https://github.com/mapbox/simplestyle-spec/tree/master/1.1.0 maki icons will be supported as markers, there are some maki icons not supported. e.g. mountain, which is essential as there are many articles on mountains and this is the natural icon, I guess. (same for volcano, stadium, castle) See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilfe:Kartographer/Maki_Icons#/maplink/0 for the gaps. (generated with <maplink> iterating over all the icons) ==== Challenges It seems like [[ https://github.com/mapbox/makizushi | makizushi ]] is only worried about mapnik upgrades and it's becoming deprecated. Therefore, [[ https://github.com/mapbox/makiwich | makiwich ]] is going to be the successor map marker creator. With the current stack is not possible to have the latest [[ https://github.com/mapbox/maki | maki ]] running, unless we migrate to libraries that use `makiwich`. That is also a problem because we have third-party libraries relying on makizushi, like `geojson-mapnikify` which is a dependency for `tilelive-overlay`, and they are following the same path as `makizushi`. It's a considerable change of codebase that we are not able to work right now. This task was mentioned at #community-wishlist-survey-2021 (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Miscellaneous/Kartographer_icon_improvements), which got the No. 41 out of 268 proposals, with 59 votes.

==== Background Although the documentation says: https://github.com/mapbox/simplestyle-spec/tree/master/1.1.0 maki icons will be supported as markers, there are some maki icons not supported. e.g. mountain, which is essential as there are many articles on mountains and this is the natural icon, I guess. (same for volcano, stadium, castle) See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilfe:Kartographer/Maki_Icons#/maplink/0 for the gaps. (generated with <maplink> iterating over all the icons) ==== Challenges It seems like [[ https://github.com/mapbox/makizushi | makizushi ]] is only worried about mapnik upgrades and it's becoming deprecated. Therefore, [[ https://github.com/mapbox/makiwich | makiwich ]] is going to be the successor map marker creator. With the current stack is not possible to have the latest [[ https://github.com/mapbox/maki | maki ]] running, unless we migrate to libraries that use `makiwich`. That is also a problem because we have third-party libraries relying on makizushi, like `geojson-mapnikify` which is a dependency for `tilelive-overlay`, and they are following the same path as `makizushi`. It's a considerable change of codebase that we are not able to work right now. This task was mentioned at the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Miscellaneous/Kartographer_icon_improvements), which got the No. 41 out of 268 proposals, with 59 votes.

==== Background Although the documentation says: https://github.com/mapbox/simplestyle-spec/tree/master/1.1.0 maki icons will be supported as markers, there are some maki icons not supported. e.g. mountain, which is essential as there are many articles on mountains and this is the natural icon, I guess. (same for volcano, stadium, castle) See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilfe:Kartographer/Maki_Icons#/maplink/0 for the gaps. (generated with <maplink> iterating over all the icons) ==== Challenges It seems like [[ https://github.com/mapbox/makizushi | makizushi ]] is only worried about mapnik upgrades and it's becoming deprecated. Therefore, [[ https://github.com/mapbox/makiwich | makiwich ]] is going to be the successor map marker creator. With the current stack is not possible to have the latest [[ https://github.com/mapbox/maki | maki ]] running, unless we migrate to libraries that use `makiwich`. That is also a problem because we have third-party libraries relying on makizushi, like `geojson-mapnikify` which is a dependency for `tilelive-overlay`, and they are following the same path as `makizushi`. It's a considerable change of codebase that we are not able to work right now. This task was mentioned at #cthe 2021 Community-w Wishlist-s Survey-2021 (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Miscellaneous/Kartographer_icon_improvements), which got the No. 41 out of 268 proposals, with 59 votes.