[Qgis-user] Cartography Sprint - Public Domain Symbology

[David Fawcett]

Alex,

A few years ago, I was looking for an open licensed set of wind barbs
to use in a workshop.  I have not been able to find a data set like
this that has a clean open license.  Maybe one exists, but I couldn't
find one.

I know that there is a reasonably small, but strong core of people
working with meteorological data in OpenSource Geospatial apps.  This
isn't a priority for me, I don't really work with this data at all,
but I believe that there is a potential need out there if you are
looking for symbol sets to create.

David.

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> 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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