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

[Fernando M. Roxo da Motta]

On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 10:47:01 -0800, John Harrop <jcharrop at gmail.com>
wrote:

  I have been playing with a set of processing scripts for seismic 3D
planning in QGIS.   I am pretty sure that they are very inefficient and
cumbersome.  I am working all the time with shapefiles, even knowing
that a small portable database (SQlite or Spatialite) would be much
better.  The point is my complete incompetence to work with
databases.  :(

  My first think was to create a plug-in set for the task, but the
processing scripts had a shorter development cycle. (aka I am too
Lazy;))



> 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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