[Graphics] Re: [California] Cartography Sprint - Public Domain Symbology

[Alex Mandel]

Those look nice, I'll have to poke a little more but it looks like for
that symbol set we just have to find an easy way to enable OSGeo folks
to download them since they already provide svg. Well that and metadata
since they are Attribution licensed. <- Really wondering how we're going
to handle this.

Hmm, QGIS plugins idea...

Thanks,
Alex


On 11/16/2010 07:29 PM, maplabs at light42.com wrote:
> 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
>  
> -- 
> 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