[Qgis-user] Mapping landslides

[Bob and Deb]

Hi Mike,

I just saw Alex's message about and tried the latest inkscape and can
confirm that PDFs can be loaded into it.  I was able to extract
several symbols, but a few did not render correctly.

Bob

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Mike Toews <mwtoews at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> Sure is possible. First, you need to make the icon into an SVG file.
> If you have Adobe Illustrator, you can open the PDF you provided a
> link to, isolate or copy the graphic and save it as SVG. Inkscape is
> another good (free) tool, but it cannot open PDFs, so you will need to
> trace the graphic.
>
> Once it is an SVG, just place the file into the QGIS svg directory
> somewhere (e.g., C:\OSGeo4W\apps\qgis-unstable\svg), and it will be
> available as a point symbol next time you open QGIS. The symbol size
> can be based on a numeric attribute of the layer by setting Properties
>> Symbology > Drawing by field > Area scale (the location of this
> option depends on which version of QGIS, I'm using 1.4.0).
>
> -Mike
>
>
> On 26 February 2010 10:31, Bob and Deb <bobdebm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am interested in mapping landslides using the symbols found here:
>> http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/fgdc_gds/geolsymstd/fgdc-geolsym-sec17.pdf .
>>
>> Can I do this with qgis?  If I can do this in qgis, I would also like
>> to have qgis scale some of these symbols so that they are proportional
>> to the size and direction of the landslide.  How do I do that?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Bob
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