[Qgis-user] General interest in geological support for QGIS?

[John Harrop]

Since we have been talking about geological symbol fonts…

What is the level of interest in other geological tools?  I would very much like to see the momentum in QGIS carry on into building tools in QGIS and/or PostGIS to support drilling, geochemistry and geophysics field surveys.

For example, I have run simple drill sections as “projections” with the data calculated in a spreadsheet.  Recently I have been (enjoying!) processing magnetic surveys in R and building profiles for plotting in plan view along the survey lines.  The tools are there to build a good exploration suite like those provided commercially for MapInfo and ESRI.

Any other interest in this?  Should we be more formalizing a project?

John


> On Jan 30, 2016, at 12:56 AM, gene <martin.laloux at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The solution we were using was a True Type font (Font marker symbol) with
> geological symbols (as ArcGIS with the geology ttf symbols). We cannot use
> directly this ESRI police ( FAQ: What are the applicable copyright
> restrictions on Esri fonts?"
> <http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/32155 >  ) but
> it is relatively easy to create a new True Type Font with geological symbols
> with  FontForge <https://fontforge.github.io/en-US/>  . You draw the symbols
> with a classical interface 
> 
> 
> <http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/file/n5248101/fontforge2.jpg> 
> 
> and you generate the True Type Font (look at  QGIS and fonts as symbols, use
> and creation with FontForge
> <http://www.portailsig.org/content/qgis-et-les-polices-de-caracteres-comme-symboles-utilisation-et-creation-avec-fontforge> 
> , in French but the figures are universal). You can even copy/paste a SVG
> symbol as a new character of the font or export a character to a SVG file .
> You can change the color and the size of a character without problem and it
> is easy to distribute
> 
> 
> 
> 
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