[California] Cartography Sprint - Public Domain Symbology

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Nice!
I am a fan of the IAN Symbols
http://ian.umces.edu/symbols/
 
also some google'ing for Free Fonts and the like
might also bring up some other projects... 
 
best regards from Berkeley
  -Brian
 
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Brian Hamlin
planetwork.net
OSGeo California Chapter
(415) 717-4462 cell
 

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:38:20 -0800, Alex Mandel  wrote:
As part of GIS day, Wed. November 17th a few of us at the University of
  > California, Davis will be getting together to work on converting some
  > symbols. Our focus is on getting US government agencies symbologies,
  > which is public domain, into SVG format for use in programs like QGIS
  > (That's what we'll be testing against). 
  >
  > I'm taking requests if anyone else has symbols they want to see
  > converted, please add it to the list or email me:
  > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_map_symbol_set#Available_Material
  >
  > This 1/2 day event is a test run for future events where we can mass
  > convert, tag and sort a large library of symbols. 
  >
  > There are a few things I hope that we'll discuss tomorrow and in the
  > future on the graphics at lists.osgeo.org. The first is how to sort or tag
  > symbols. Since symbols can be of a certain type but also belong to a set
  > it will be good to find away to allow for this without having to store
  > symbols twice. 
  > Second would be what size and format to store symbols in. Initially I'm
  > thinking about how to store both inkscape and plain svg (and comparing
  > them) along with batch auto-generation of png versions so that those
  > won't have to be in a repository. 
  >
  > Sorry for the short notice. I look forward to any input from the lists. 
  >
  > Thanks,
  > Alex
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