makizushi still uses maki 0.5.0, so we need to either contribute a patch upstream or fork (this is much more complicated than just updating version number due to massive changes in maki 1.0).

This might be easier to do now that npm has aliases perhaps ?

Throwing links in:

https://github.com/mapbox/makiwich/blob/master/package.json#L12 lists "@mapbox/maki": "^4.0.0" as dependency.

https://github.com/mapbox/makizushi/blob/master/package.json#L12 lists "maki": "0.5.0" as dependency.

That is also a problem because we have third-party libraries relying on makizushi, like geojson-mapnikify

https://github.com/mapbox/geojson-mapnikify/blob/master/package.json#L32 lists "@mapbox/makizushi": "^3.0.1" as dependency.

Just a note. These icons were basically part of the mapbox api. If we want to keep them and also update them, this should probably become a simple microservice alla:

https://maps.wikimedia.org/poi-icons/alias
https://maps.wikimedia.org/poi-icons/maki/v0.5/iconname
https://maps.wikimedia.org/poi-icons/maki/v1.0/iconname
https://maps.wikimedia.org/poi-icons/wmf/v1.0/iconname

Where iconname is basically an api for makizushi compositing: base-symbol-tint-size-retina
And alias would point to familyname/iconname

And a json mapping table in the service config of alias names to icons, where alias is the name of icons as used in our JSON fragments and they then point to the actual versioned icon that we want that alias to target.

That way we can make sure our json doesn't break etc. and we can add our own icons when we want. It's a bit similar to how we switched from geshi syntax highlight names to pygments as well. And you could even use specific icons from the json fragments by including them as 'wmf/v1.0/garden' if you want something other than the default alias.

Ideally we'd also include some marker in the json to indicate that we are using this as an icon api.

Let's also be more liberal about bad marker-symbols, for example falling back to a plain marker rather than letting the error crash map rendering.