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

[Patty Rehn]

I am very interested in additional geologic support for QGIS. I have been
learning to use this great software for plotting geochemical data (my data-
Hg and soil pH) for geothermal exploration. I have ended up using TrueType
fonts for some symbols (strike and dip) and editing in GIMP for the other
items I could not find or work around.

I am trying to use Blender for drill hole (well data) plotting but have not
gotten anywhere, really. I attempted to use Midvatten but I am not enough
of a programmer to alter it, despite the cooperation of the author--still
learning how to use QGIS.

This list is quite helpful for some problems but I wish there was a
somewhat less sophisticated user list. The QGIS-USA list has helped with
some data plotting issues that were not of interest here.

I would like to be part of geology project/ support list but I lack the
skill to do much other than share the problems I have managed to solve
without python, etc.

Thanks for the geologic interest
Patty
--consulting geochemist

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

> 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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