[Qgis-user] Cartography Sprint - Public Domain Symbology

[Alex Mandel]

David,

Do you have a reference for the symbols you're talking about. I'm pretty
sure I know what you mean but a list of image of them would be really
useful, maybe on a NOAA website?

Thanks,
Alex

On 11/17/2010 07:27 AM, David Fawcett wrote:
> 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