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

[Nathan Woodrow]

Hey Andreas,

I am reviewing that code right now.  I will merge the QGIS side of things
into master first then get someone to merge the django bit.

- Nathan


On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:

> 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
>>
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>>
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