Comments on: Towards a standard Geotag Icon?

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:40:34 +0000

Good point Barry re attribution; no, we don’t expect that for ordinary usage. I’ll have to look at the terms again. The Project is in its early days and there’s no rule book to follow, so we’re learning as we go.

I’m partially red-green colorblind too, which is probably why the first version was brown

Glad to hear you’re warming to it. We’ve just added a developer showcase and user map to the site, so do re-visit if you can cope with the black!

By: Barry

Barry — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:38:51 +0000

I think I realised what my issue, its the colour, or rather the color against a dark background. I’d only really seen the icon on the original site, which is all dark colours, but red tends to be rather blurred against a dark background (at least to me, probably a side effect of being red-green colour blind).

Viewing on a white (or light) background (as now playing with it in other places) I think it looks fine.

Roll on the Geotag icon!

By: Barry

Barry — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:51:35 +0000

Not sure really, just a gut feeling. But having said that seeing it again now it has definitely grown on me

There is no denying it a distinctive icon, and definitly can see its utility. Intend to roll it out to other relevent sites where I can

One point that occurs to me (Yes know lazy asking it here!), by adopting a CC licence does that mean that uses of the icon have to credit geotagicons.com for every site used?

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:27:29 +0000

Sorry to hear you’re not a fan Barry; it is highly recognizable in identifying the geotagging in your PhotoSpot category.

In what way does the design let you down?