[OSGeo-Discuss] Symbology/styles exchange

[RAVI KUMAR]

Hi,
symbology is of particular significance for Geologists. Orientation (Rotation) of symbols and labelling through attribute table are essential. 
OpenJUMP user list has made great contribution towards this. Wish to know if any other Open GIS has similar resources.

Cheers
Ravi Kumar


--- On Fri, 12/26/08, Olivier ERTZ <olivier.ertz at heig-vd.ch> wrote:

> From: Olivier ERTZ <olivier.ertz at heig-vd.ch>
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Symbology/styles exchange
> To: "OSGeo Discussions" <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
> Date: Friday, December 26, 2008, 4:25 PM
> Hi,
> while you read my little answer, just imagine a big smile
> on my face, because what you describe in your call is
> something that really motivates me. I was currently doing a
> kind of same investigation, and Osmarender, Kosmos, MassGIS
> Wiki on SLD, ... could all be added to your starting list,
> and I came to the same conclusions : having a symbology and
> styling platform to share would be great, and I sign up with
> two hands. So, I'm ready to help in building a wiki page
> to write the specification of such a platform. Of course,
> OSGeo_map_symbol_set is then to be taken in consideration,
> and for sure people who wrote this wiki page will feel
> concerned...
> 
> Best regards,
> Olivier
> 
> Andrea Aime wrote:
> > Hi,
> > lately I was looking around for places where
> > sample map styles, sample map symbols, and
> > public discussions (forums/ml) about the topic
> > of map making on web/desktop platforms.
> > 
> > I've found something around, like the MapServer
> > symbology exchange, or the italian OSGEO chapter
> > site collecting some free SVG symbols.
> > And some discussions as well, but sprinkled over
> > various mailing list as part of a different main
> > topic.
> > The scenario is somewhat discouraging, and I was
> > thinking of ways to improve the situation,
> > have more users exchange, discuss and participate
> > in a community of electonic map makers.
> > 
> > What I have in mind is a platform like
> > gnome-look.org allowing everyone to post and
> > share their work, organize it in categories,
> > have other people vote and comment/discuss
> > Examples:
> > - map symbols
> > - map styles, be it SLD, mapfiles, mapnik config file,
> >    ESRI projects  (why not?)
> > - data itself, be it real downloadable data, or
> >    pointers to sites where the data is available
> > 
> > Here are some user stories I have in mind for such
> > a site:
> > - a user has made a map is proud of. He posts
> >    on the site a screenshot of the map, the style
> >    used to create it, and the license under which
> >    the style is distributed. Other people can comment,
> >    eventually show how the same map can be created
> >    using a different GIS system
> > - maybe the above map contains self made symbols
> >    (SVG, TTF, MapServer symbols, ...) that can be
> >    published in a map symbol sharing area of the
> >    same site
> > - the same map is done using some data, maybe the
> >    data can be shared, or the map has been produced
> >    over some well known free data set. This would
> >    help others make the same map with another
> >    system, or take the initial map and propose
> >    variations/improvements on top of it
> > 
> > Adding a forum where people can discuss about map
> > making would be good as well.
> > This would be in competition with the various support
> > forums of the existing projects, so it has to provide
> > something more than the existing ml do not provide.
> > What that is, is comparisons between different
> > products, approaches to make maps: that would break
> > the user communities silos and stimulate some lively
> > exchange on the merits of each platform
> > (yeah that may degenerate sometimes,
> > but I believe most of the times it would be healthy
> > and very interesting for users and developers alike).
> > 
> > How to pull something like this off? Well, it would
> > be nice if gnome-look (as the site code) was open
> source,
> > thought as of now I haven't found any indication
> of
> > the code being available. The forum could be the
> > usual php-bb or something like that.
> > Maybe the above are not 100% suited to the task
> > at hand, but it would be an easy start to see if
> > the idea has merit and can pull togheter a community
> > of users.
> > Does anybody have suggestions on existing software
> > platforms that could be used to put togheter such
> > a site?
> > 
> > Soo... wondering what other people think about this?
> > I would be willing to put some of my time on this,
> > but I'm already quite busy with other stuff
> > in GeoServer/GeoTools land so I'm wondering if
> there
> > is anybody else interested in such a thing?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Andrea
> > 
> >   
> 
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