[Qgis-user] Cartography Sprint - Public Domain Symbology

[Anders Söderman]

Hello Alex     

I`ve been working with this ”problem” for 3 years now and few people
understand the need for public mapsymbols and how to sort or tag symbols.
I´ve also worked a lot with areapatterning in GeoServer using SVG symbols
for WMS purposes. 


If I can be of any help and participate in this, please let me now. 

 

I´ve put together nearly 1900 different mapsymbols categorized in “my own”
categories. 

 
<http://www.gisassistans.se/KARTSYMBOLER_per_HUVUDKATEGORI_Table_KS_100706_1
700_ans100709_1900_KS1_Nr_Bild.php>
http://www.gisassistans.se/KARTSYMBOLER_per_HUVUDKATEGORI_Table_KS_100706_17
00_ans100709_1900_KS1_Nr_Bild.php 

As you can see all(?) open US symbols are also included. 

 

Happy “GIS day” and good luck with todays work.  Regards Anders Söderman
Stockholm Sweden

 

 

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[mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Alex Mandel
Sent: den 17 november 2010 03:38
To: graphics at lists.osgeo.org; Qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org;
california at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Qgis-user] Cartography Sprint - Public Domain Symbology

 

As part of GIS day, Wed. November 17th a few of us at the University of
California, Davis will be getting together to work on converting some
symbols. Our focus is on getting US government agencies symbologies,

which is public domain, into SVG format for use in programs like QGIS
(That's what we'll be testing against).

 

I'm taking requests if anyone else has symbols they want to see converted,
please add it to the list or email me:

 <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_map_symbol_set#Available_Material>
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_map_symbol_set#Available_Material 

This 1/2 day event is a test run for future events where we can mass
convert, tag and sort a large library of symbols.

 

There are a few things I hope that we'll discuss tomorrow and in the future
on the graphics at lists.osgeo.org. The first is how to sort or tag symbols.
Since symbols can be of a certain type but also belong to a set it will be
good to find away to allow for this without having to store symbols twice.

Second would be what size and format to store symbols in. Initially I'm
thinking about how to store both inkscape and plain svg (and comparing them)
along with batch auto-generation of png versions so that those won't have to
be in a repository.

 

Sorry for the short notice. I look forward to any input from the lists.

 

Thanks,

Alex

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