[Qgis-user] Font Awesome symbols in QGIS

[Jonathan Moules]

Hi Nyall,

The problem is it's near impossible to know what people will use for 
symbology.

 > battery indicators

Charging stations; indicators of expected charge during a Battery 
operated vehicle event; etc [although probably only need the empty one; 
the full rest can be created with symbology and a rectangle]

 > volume

Mapping a festival; tracking noise complaints; etc

 > most of the "hand" ones

I'd probably keep about half of them. The rotation variants are not 
needed of course, but quite a few hands could be used: hand-wash (I hear 
there's something going around...), hand-pointer, praying-hands, 
handshake, hand-rock, hand-holding (the variants can be created by 
symbology), hands, hand-sparkles. I can think of uses for all of these.

It's obviously subjective but I'd lean on the side of including ones 
that look like they could be useful, especially given the suggestions 
around categorisation and search in my other thread which would improve 
discoverability. Remember people make maps of all manner of crazy 
things, and often subvert one symbol to mean another thing (with some 
tweaking) [or maybe that's just me ;-) ].

Cheers,

Jonathan


On 2020-07-28 01:43, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 21:08, Jonathan Moules
> <jonathan-lists at lightpear.com> wrote:
>> I'd be happy to do that, though I'd note that what one person thinks is
>> useless, would be useful to another person. Sure I'm struggling to
>> conceive of a use for "alignment" or "bezier-curve", but a quick look
>> suggests probably over 50% would be potentially useful. Over 80% if you
>> remain open minded about how people use these things.
> That's the kind of ones I was referring to. Also stuff like volume
> up/down, battery indicators, the calender +/-/check icons, most of the
> "hand" ones, a bunch of the "user" ones. I can't see those EVER being
> used in a map! By the time you remove them and all the brand ones then
> you're probably down to about 20% of the original set.
>
> Nyall
>
>
>
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>>
>>> I second Regis plan: if someone forks (or even clones) the github repo, and creates a simple script to morph it a little to resemble the structure you need for the 'QGIS Resource Sharing' Plugin to work (see [0] as simple example and [1] for the nice documentation of it), the icons are one click away for users (plus another one to install the plugin).
>>>
>>> And the more proper Resource set's we are having, the better our style/icon resources will get.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Richard Duivenvoorde
>>>
>>> [0] https://github.com/rduivenvoorde/qgis-styles/
>>> [1] https://qgis-contribution.github.io/QGIS-ResourceSharing/
>>>
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