[OSGeo-Discuss] Creating a Free Cartographic Symbol Library

[Markus Neteler]

Landon,

yes. Please check
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_map_symbol_set
and add ideas!

cheers
Markus

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Landon Blake <lblake at ksninc.com> wrote:
> I've been working on GeoTools support for the GPX format. Part of the GPX
> format allows a user/program to specify a Symbol as a string/text value.
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> We've been having a discussion on the GPX mailing list about a standard
> mapping of symbol names to symbol graphics, either in Raster or Vector (SVG)
> format. The basic idea is to allow a program like OpenJUMP to import a GPX
> file and then display the appropriate symbol at the waypoint location based
> on the information in the GPX file.
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> There is at least one person on the GPX mailing list that would be
> interested in putting together such a cartographic symbol library.
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> Does something like this already exist? Is it something the OSGeo would be
> interested in? I was thinking we might put something together and release it
> under a creative commons license…
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> Landon
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