For presets and some fields, icons can be specified. They provide an additional hint to the user about what the respective OSM tags are about. Additionally, icons can help to make presets more universally understood, as icons are even present when presets are not translated into all languages.

Where do the icons come from?

Icons from the below listed sources can be used. When specifying an icon, use the prefixed version of the name, for example "icon": "maki-park".

Name	Prefix	Description	Preview
Maki	maki-	Map-specific icons from Mapbox	Preview
Temaki	temaki-	An expansion pack for Maki	Preview
Röntgen	roentgen-	Part of the Map Machine project	Preview
Font Awesome Solid	fas-	Solid style icons from Font Awesome (free tier)	Preview
Font Awesome Regular	far-	Regular style icons from Font Awesome (free tier)	Preview
Font Awesome Brands	fab-	Brand icons from Font Awesome (free tier)	Preview
Pinhead	pinhead-	Public domain icons for map pins	Preview
iD Presets	iD-	iD's presets-icons	-
iD Fields	iD-	iD's fields-icons	-

How can I add new icons?

A good place to submit a PR for a new icon is the Temaki project. This is because Temaki was specifically created for icons for tagging presets and has therefore relatively low acceptance criteria and short release cycles. But in principle, you could propose icons to be added to any of the listed sources above, if you prefer to do so.

Guidelines

In addition to the design guidelines, the following points should be considered when selecting or designing icons:

• icons should be as specific as possible for a given preset and not reused too much between presets
• icons should be universal and generic (i.e. not specific to a single region)
• icons are not images, i.e. don't need to be an exact depiction of the preset's features

imageURL

For presets, it is possible to define an icon via the imageURL property in addition to an icon. The referenced image might be displayed by an editor instead of the icon. For example, iD displays icons from imageURL only when users have not disabled to show third party icons.

imageURL is extensively used to specify the logos of brand presets by the name-suggestion-index project.

It must not be used for regular preset entries in iD tagging schema.