For many people around, there are holydays now, meaning they break off from their routines (mapping somewhere else, getting more time for gathering on the ground information, or taking a time off). For me holidays doesn't exist, at least this year. I am in the process of changing employer, that is I started to work for my new employer before I ended my work at my previous. My new employer is also a little short of people with the right qualifications, so they have signaliced even before I started, that I need to work some extra in the coming time.

The good about that is while I work I get some time off, from time to time, that I can use to continue my work on INT-1 documentation on the wiki, with a JOSM tagging preset and a MapCSS rendering rule, and translate more wiki pages to portuguese.

I have reasently had a time at work with a very bad internet connection, resulting in many of the .png files for INT-1 symbols have been redrawn as .svg. I am at the same time redesigning the tagging preset and the mapcss to use these svg files, as I have managed with a trac ticket to get svg support implemented in JOSM (currently available only in latest experimental snapshot).

The result of this offline time is that I am starting to understand some ground principles in Inkscape, which allows me to draw simple objects, i.e. the simplest INT-1 icons such as E10 (church). I will soon start looking at more advanced symbols, such as chimney stack (E22), and look into how to solve more complex MapCSS rendering with combined icons (can I make rules that allow me to combine symbols for lighthouse, the light, a radar recon, and a fog signal? Or do I have to make a symbol for each case?) I will also need to look into if I can offset icons, turn them around, make images as border to a way, and so on.

When svg version of INT-1 icons are complete enough, I will post a link here, and will see to have the wiki documentation updated to use svg instead of current png files, but first the documentation need to be complete.

Why I work on many halfway projects instead of full attention to one? Probably because I work best that way.

[1] JOSM tagging preset
[2] JOSM MapCSS rendering