[Qgis-user] Cartography Sprint - Public Domain Symbology

[Ramon Andinach]

If it hasn't already been done, is there any chance of getting the USGS geological symbols onto one of the lists for conversion discussed here??
http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/fgdc_gds/geolsymstd/download.php

-ramon.

On 18/11/2010, at 01:47 , Luca Lanteri wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In the first part of the new year we are going to start a project, in collaboration with an italian university, to create a symbols library mainly for geologist and geomorphologist.
> The library could be compatible with udig and qgis so we thought to use mainly the svg for point symbol, but we will also use sld for poligon or more complex symbol. 
> 
> In the immediate future we have to choose our standards and the simbol, but we thought to start with the ISPRA (the Italian geological survey office) library. 
> 
> I could send you to your private e-mail a pdf with the simbol library (about 5 Mb) or you can download it at 
> http://www.apat.gov.it/site/_files/Quaderni/quaderno10/quad10_simboli.zip
> 
> thanks 
> Luca
> 
> 2010/11/17 Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
> 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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