[QGIS-Developer] A good task for someone wanting to get involved -- update CPT ramps

[Nyall Dawson]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 at 09:50, <james at shaeffer.co> wrote:
>
> Here is a pull request for the requested changes:
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/49423

Wow -- that was fast!! :D

Nyall

>
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> James
>
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> Subject: [QGIS-Developer] A good task for someone wanting to get involved --
> update CPT ramps
>
> Hi all,
>
> Here's an idea for a good task for someone wanting to get involved in QGIS
> contributions which doesn't require any c++/python.
>
> Currently we package a subset of the CPT ramps archive in QGIS, which you
> can see here
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/tree/master/resources/cpt-city-qgis-min
>
> It's missing a lot of the ramps present in the current version of the CPT
> archive from http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/cpt-city/ . Some of these
> are because the licenses won't permit bundling with QGIS (e.g. the ESRI
> sets), but others are just missing because we haven't updated our subset in
> a loooooooooong time. (E.g. compare the subset present in QGIS
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/tree/master/resources/cpt-city-qgis-min/gmt
> from the GMT set vs
> http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/cpt-city/gmt/index.html )
>
> It would be great to update our subset and re-sync it with the upstream
> collection. We're missing a lot of nice ramps we could be bundling by
> default :)
>
> I'm happy to mentor this task if someone wants to give it a shot...
>
> Nyall
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