[Graphics] Geosilk icons

[Robert Szczepanek]

Hello,

That's good idea Jody to create wiki. There are so many valuable
resources! Your Rolando 'other resources' list can be good start point.
I'm not very experienced in wiki page creation, so your help is welcome.
I have created just starting point at
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Graphics

In which direction in your opinion wiki should go:
1. just link to resources, or
2. put tables with sample (from different themes/projects) graphics
(like
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_map_symbol_set#Symbol_Availability and
http://www.szczepanek.pl/icons.grass/v.0.1/)

Second option can be difficult to handle, but just showing few sample
graphics can be interesting.
More important for me is to point out common files naming rules with
detailed description. This way it will be easy to interchange/exchange
symbols and icons between projects.

Robert

Rolando Peñate pisze:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> Many of you are aware of these already, but Jody suggested that I
> forward this along to the graphics at osgeo.org <mailto:graphics at osgeo.org>
> so here it is.
> 
> In an effort to harmonize across GeoExt and other projects, the
> new GeoServer UI is using the GeoSilk icon set
> (http://projects.opengeo.org/geosilk) of which you can read more
> here: http://blog.opengeo.org/2009/05/01/geosilk/
> 
> Because it is designed for the web, it has some limitations for desktop
> apps (like a lack of larger sizes) but perhaps it'll be useful for some
> of your projects nonetheless.
> 
> Best,
> Rolando
> 
> -- 
> Rolando Peñate
> Design Lead
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org <http://opengeo.org/>
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> *From: *Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com
>> <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>>
>> *Date: *November 4, 2009 7:29:25 PM EST
>> *To: *Andrea Aime <aaime at opengeo.org <mailto:aaime at opengeo.org>>
>> *Cc: *Geoserver-devel <geoserver-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
>> <mailto:geoserver-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>>
>> *Subject: **Re: [Geoserver-devel] Geosilk icons upgrade*
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> maybe not everybody is aware of that, but GeoServer UI is using the
>>> GeoSilk icon set: http://projects.opengeo.org/geosilk
>>
>> Nice.
>>
>> This should be passed on to the graphics at osgeo.org
>> <mailto:graphics at osgeo.org> email list where
>> projects are also trying to work with a similar mandate (ie visual
>> harmonization across projects).
>>
>>> I upgraded the icons we had to the latest revision (GEOS-3556) and used
>>> the occasion to make the layers and preview page use a type specific
>>> icon: instead of just "vector" the icon now tells the user if the
>>> layer is a point, line or polygon (using the old icon for unspecified
>>> vector layers).
>>>
>>> I've attached a sample screenshot. What do you think?
>>
>> There is one weakness with the new icons that I tried to address when
>> I took a run at this; often we have an unknown "Geometry" and need to
>> represent point, line, and polygon via the same image. If I do that
>> with the images provided it ends up looking like a rectangle that has
>> been crossed out.
>>
>> I really like the raster icon :-)
>>
>> Jody
> 
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