[Graphics] Map Symbols from California Chapter meeting/Sprint

[Alex Mandel]

On 12/28/2011 03:08 PM, Robert Szczepanek wrote:
> W dniu 28.12.2011 01:26, Alex Mandel pisze:
>> While I still haven't gotten around to my symbology database/keywording
>> tool yet... a few of us did get together and convert a bunch of symbols
>> to svg from pdfs and other not so usable formats (150+symbols).
>
> Great work Alex!
> Thank you for this contribution.
>
>> I've pushed the results to svn, under "sets" because these all come from
>> pre-made grouping of iconography created various US gov. agencies and
>> are presumable all public domain.
>> http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/graphics/trunk/map-icons/
>>
>> Under themes I also add the ISO 19115 Topic Category names based on
>> http://gcmd.nasa.gov/User/difguide/iso_topics.html
>> So if you happen to make a symbol or two those seem like the best
>> (though not great) categories to file them under for now.
>
> As I understand, 'sets' top-level folder is for consistent set of icons.
> Like USA-Government.
>
> "Theme" folder you treat as thematic, not theme in the sense of uniform
> layout. So my few icons from "gis" subfolder should be moved to
> appropriate subfolders. Like nurse.svg to "health". Is this correct?
>
> regards,
> Robert

Yes that's the right idea. The definitions make it on the page I linked 
make most icons have a reasonable home. While the topics were intended 
for categorization of GIS data I think they mostly work for now for 
icons too.
http://gcmd.nasa.gov/User/difguide/iso_topics.html

All the icons I uploaded came from defined sets (groups of icons) from 
specific agencies for specific purposes. Example, one of the sets is all 
Natural Distasters and would be the icons used by a government group in 
the US making a map of such things. I'm still working on tweaking the 
xml to be 100% compatible with QGIS in terms of color management of the 
solid parts - help appreciated.

In general we just copied and pasted out of pdf or font files to 64x64 
pixel inkscape svg.

Thanks,
Alex