Basic computer artistic help needed.

[MatsP]

Someone with some reasonable skills with drawing on computers will find this a doddle, but I'd like to add a "map icon". It should be 18 x 18 pixels to match the size of other forum icons.

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Mats

[dbosman]

If you have an image in mind, this will allow you to convert it.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-ic ... 0-seconds/

[racoll]

Have you looked at iconfinder.com or iconseeker.com?

Or do you want a custom one unique to PC?

[MatsP]

I have no problem converting it. And if anyone knows of a good map-icon that is free to use, then I'm happy to have that.

But none of the maps I've been able to find so far are particularly "looking the way I want it". They are all showing maps of streets, old maps (for games?) or "character map". Or they are "markers" for adding to maps.

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Mats

[racoll]

How about this one?

[MatsP]

When you reduce the 256 x 256 bitmap to 19 x 19 pixels, it's not very clear what it is..

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Mats

[racoll]

Ah, I see.

This one is the one that the Google Maps search uses in Firefox. Something like this?

[racoll]

It is a marker icon, but I think the default location is an image people will associate strongly with Google Maps, and could be used?

[MatsP]

I want something that really says "this is a map".

Here's what I came up with...

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[joefish72b]

How is this?

[MatsP]

Appologies, Joe, but I'm not sure what that is supposed to be - I want something that people will immediately recognise as a map, even when it's tiny!

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Mats

[Jools]

How about the old BBC logo from the 1970's - the yellow on black rotating globe. Now I've got to find that!

Jools

[RickE]

As will immediately become clear, I don't know what I am talking about but how about something like this from here: http://www.animationlibrary.com/animati ... _and_gold/. Free to all apparently.

[MatsP]

Nice one Rick. My pedantic gripes are two things (and I admit that I can be overly pedantic at times):
1. It's 43 x 43 pixels - roughly 4x larger than the 19 x 19 pixels I'd like.
2. It's not really saying "map" - more "worldwide".

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[Jools]

Yeah, I was being too retro. Animations like that are way too web 1.0. I know it's a little too big, but what about this:

or ?

Jools

[MatsP]

I like the first one of those. But even at 19 x 19, the one we've got now (of my doing) is a tad large [in the bofw_tree page].

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[mummymonkey]

This kind of thing?

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pc_compass.gif (1.18 KiB) Viewed 3578 times

[Jools]

Check out http://www.famfamfam.com, silk icon set, preview (look for M for map) here.



Jools

[joefish72b]

The universal symbol for a map would be a compas rose but 19 x 19 is so small it just looks like a fuzzy dot. The best I could come up with was this navigation arrow.
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