[Qgis-developer] Criticism of lack of symbols in QGIS

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi,

I second that - please do not add additional SVG symbols without
previously improving the tool to organize the symbols. We will only end
up with tons of symbols (that only a minority needs) slowing down QGIS
considerably when dealing with point or patterns.

Also, we should distinguish between SVG suitable for point symbolization
and pattern fills. Not all of the symbols are suitable for both ...

In addition, many single color SVG symbols should be changed to allow
for easy change of stroke, fill and stroke-width - see
http://www.sourcepole.com/svg-symbols-in-qgis-with-modifiable-colors

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As to the criticism: when reading this, I was quite annoyed - while it
is true, that the situation with SVG symbols, and the lack of quality
symbols should be improved - but the second part of the criticism -
having to learn three tools instead of just one, is so out of context
and plain wrong.

How is ESRI any better in this respect? If you want to use a spatial
database with ESRI you also have to learn how to maintain the database -
on the other hand you can also work with QGIS without having to learn
Postgis (using spatialite or SHP-files) - and since when is tilemill a
necessity to publish a map? And since when does plain ESRI arcview
include a functionality similar to Postgis and Tilemill without having
to pay for extra modules? Last time I checked, it didn't.

People should really help to improve the situation rather than complaining.

Just my opinion,
Andreas


On 02/05/2012 11:05 AM, MORREALE Jean Roc wrote:
> Hi, at the moment I don't think it woulb be wise to include that much
> symbols without changing the way they are presented to user. They have
> to be sorted in categories and never loaded all at once.
> 
> Le 05/02/2012 00:07, Mayeul Kauffmann a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> This discussion came up already, but just in case this was forgotten:
>> I generated a set of about 1000 svg color icons for QGIS, based on OSM
>> icons.
>> Available here as public domain:
>>
>> http://www.mediafire.com/?jiooxkbmyzgr0
>>
>> Sample use visible in this video:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBBYtH2svw0&t=3m26s
>>
>> (Customizing OSM map with osm2postgresql&  QGIS )
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Mayeul
>>
>> Le vendredi 03 février 2012 à 23:46 -0800, Alex Mandel a écrit :
>>> On 02/03/2012 09:39 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> FYI, I +others converted over 100 icons from pdf/font to svg in a 2
>>>>> hour
>>>>> sprint a few months back. We should add something to pull them into
>>>>> QGIS
>>>>> source for inclusion. Only hold up was that I couldn't get the svg
>>>>> fill
>>>>> stuff worked out.
>>>>
>>>> Very cool - are these icons the ones that you can access already
>>>> via the style manager SVG options?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No these icons are converted from public domain US government sets, as
>>> of Oct 2011. They have not been incorporated into QGIS yet, but will be
>>> shortly. After talking with Nathan and Gary I think we can find a way to
>>> pull a copy from the osgeo svn every once in a while, say when building
>>> a new release, so maybe they'll be in QGIS 1.7.4
>>>
>>> Alternately maybe a plugin should be made to pull them in as an optional
>>> thing.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
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