Iconquest

[yhahn]

Goal is to simplify and consistify across our two renderers how icon styling + rendering is handled.

• Icons for a bucket cannot vary size -- they are fixed
• Split icons from circles -- they are different enough and code paths are already split apart
• Write a sprite PBF generator/parser (like glyph PBFs)
• Generic texture atlas so it can be shared by glyphs/icons Image token replacement #411 (comment)
• Consistify the icon VertexArray across renderers -- https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-native/pull/259/files is outstanding from native and native has implemented a different array for rendering

@todo learn more about other texture usages (patterns) to make sure a generic texture atlas can be used by them too.

[mourner]

Is this task list still relevant as it is?

[kkaefer]

Sprite Atlas is happening in #851

[kkaefer]

Follow up ticket: mapbox/mapbox-gl-style-spec#220