[Qgis-developer] print composer, more symbols - Roadmap 2.2

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi David,

We deliberately held back on the publication of too many map symbols - 
for now.

There was a Gsoc (Google summer of code project) by Arunmozhi this year 
that worked on a central symbol repository (django webapp) and a QGIS 
integration which will help people to exchange styles and SVG symbols. 
See http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/17/Google_Summer_of_Code_2013

Too many (SVG) symbols pre-installed slow down QGIS considerably. So I'd 
rather prefer having fewer symbols pre-installed. If there was a way to 
browse symbols online easily and then just pull the symbols that one 
actually needs that would be wonderful.

I don't know the current status of the GsoC project. It seems to have 
done fairly well but I do not see that integrated in qgis master 
currently. Anyone knows? Is the django based website publically 
available?

I see that there is an "import from URL" method in the GUI of the style 
manager - but wich URL? Is there already a central repository?

Thanks,
Andreas

Am 2013-11-05 15:06, schrieb Chrest, David:
> I'm new to QGIS and am incredibly impressed. I like seeing all the
> discussion of new releases and improvements. I see that Nyall is
> working on improving the print composer. As a guy who basically makes
> maps for a living, this is huge. Since so much of our final products
> in GIS are maps, having software that allows more functionality for
> quality map design is extremely important. It can be the single reason
> people chose one software package over another. For many years ESRI's
> ArcMap has had a leg up on open source GIS software because it has
> such a nice print/map "composer" (the Layout in ArcMap) but I believe
> this can change from what I see happening in QGIS. Multiple
> insets/data frames would be very nice. Also, I was surprised at how
> few preloaded line and polygon symbols there are. Just a handful. No
> railroad symbol? Would be really, really, good to have more of these
> available. Map designers love this kind of stuff.
> 
> Thanks so much,
> 
> David
> 
> David Chrest
> 
> Research GIS Analyst
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> RTI International
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