[Qgis-community-team] How to port USGS's symbology

[Giovanni Manghi]

Hi,

there are also a couple of tickets about available symbols to be added to qgis

https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/746

https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1694


cheers

-- Giovanni --

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:34 AM, MORREALE Jean Roc
<jr.morreale at enoreth.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The USGS has made available a whole set of graphical symbology for
> geological cartography, the final draft is from 2006 and readable here ->
> http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/fgdc_gds/
>
> It covers lines, symbols, patterns. You can use them trough *.eps, *.ai
> swatches, *.pdf or arcgis template. I've been using them with Adobe
> Illustrator and Arcgis 9.3 for geological maps and the result is great so I
> would like to port them to Quantum GIS. I've read about Martin's symbology
> work on the wiki but haven't found how to do a template.
>
> These graphics are public domain, the USGS's people I've been talking to are
> interested by another implementation of this standard (as they said, they
> often have inquiries for it but nothing to point to except Illustrator and
> ArcGIS).
>
> Regards,
> MORREALE Jean Roc
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