[Qgis-developer] Re: OSM icons for QGIS vector rendering

[kimaidou]

Hi Mayeul !

I will post an email to you and the author of sjjb icons to help you guys
share you great work ! (using another email adresse)

Cheers
Kimaidou

2011/2/22 Mayeul Kauffmann <mayeul.kauffmann at free.fr>

>  Hi Kimaidou, Hi everybody,
>
> Kimaidou: Maybe I already created some of the icons you need. Anyway, I
> wish to release the ones I created under the license SJJB used (CC-0) and I
> slightly improved some of his icons. I just added some details on this here:
> http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Using_OpenStreetMap_data#Add_new_OSM_icons
>
> I also put the shell scripts I wrote to generate svg coloured icons on
> linux (SJJB only generated PNG coloured files). I also uploaded my new raw
> (gray scale/script-proof) icons (
> http://www.mediafire.com/?344x43313q3xx8n ). It would be an honor for me
> if SJJB accepts to redistribute them with theirs!
>
> I also uploaded my qgis styles on trac (ticket 3222): that's 225 rules for
> points alone, showing 225 icons (I choose the one to focus on based on
> frequency in OSM data and on icon availability, creating a few new icons,
> possibly with a local bias: you cannot map a single Italian village without
> an ice cream shop, so I needed to map this! ... to find the ice cream shops
> more easily myself of course ;-)
>
> To answer your comment about your email sent to SJJB icon creator:
> I do not know the contact details of the creator of the SJJB icons. But
> based on the following link, maybe your contact at SJJB might be
> johnny_automatic: http://www.openclipart.org/search/?query=maps Am I
> right?
> Anyway, could you give me his email and/or forward this message to him?
> Thanks.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Mayeul
>
> Le lundi 21 février 2011 à 09:17 +0100, kimaidou a écrit :
>
>  By, the way, I am also looking for icons to render the rich OSM poi
> database, (http://demo.3liz.fr/osminterest/ ) and asked the creator of the
> SJJB icons to create some more. I gave him a list 2 days ago, and he told me
> he would spend some times to work on it in the coming weeks.
>
> I will let you know when I get some information.
>
> Kimaidou
>
>  2011/2/19 Mayeul Kauffmann <mayeul.kauffmann at free.fr>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion Martin!
> Icons are available here:
> http://www.mediafire.com/?344x43313q3xx8n
>
> They are meant to be used with the tutorial here:
> http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Using_OpenStreetMap_data
>
> I was hoping to find something without restrictions and if possible
> dedicated to open source material.
> I could not find it here:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_map_symbol_set
>
> There is http://www.openclipart.org (which supports multiple uploads,
> collections and packages) but I cannot upload a zipped file, hence I
> cannot reproduce the folder structure required for qgis to find the
> right files.
> So I've put the icons I'm using on mediafire:
>
> osm_icons4qgis_v1.zip
> (If I do not login often enough, this might be destroyed).
>
> All the icons that either SJJB or myself created are copyright free
> (CC-0). I do not know the status of the others (mostly, the others are
> preinstalled with qgis).
> See http://www.sjjb.co.uk/mapicons/introduction
>
> Mayeul
>
>
> Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 23:40 +0100, Martin Dobias a écrit :
>
> > There are plenty of web services for easy sharing of files, for
> > example, mediafire.com or megaupload.com
> >
> > Martin
>
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