[Qgis-user] Font Awesome symbols in QGIS

Tue Jul 28 14:57:03 PDT 2020

I hacked together a band-aid solution. Probably not production ready but I
would advocate for this system of having a small subset of these icons
included in QGIS core by default going forward (If any. It may be better to
just start a similar svg-library specifically for cartography, but using
what's available is a start I guess.).

Pretty much any application specific purposes are well catered for by the
resource sharing plugin IMO.

Cherry picked list of Font-Awesome icons for general map purposes:
https://github.com/zacharlie/fa4qgis

Entire Font Awesome Free repo to use with the QGIS Resource Sharing Plugin:
https://github.com/zacharlie/fa4gis

Happy to hand over custodianship of these to anyone who thinks they're up
to it .

If people find these useful I could probably do similar for similar
libraries like feather, material or unicons.

Regards

On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 13:28, Jonathan Moules <jonathan-lists at lightpear.com>
wrote:

> > but these use cases seem pretty fringe to me (no for general use).
>
> Yes, and this then raises the question: how fringe is too fringe? An
> ecologist is going to want a different set of symbols to a transport
> planner to a meteorologist to a defence planner to a hydrologist to a
> school teacher to a archaeologist to a geologist to a....
>
> Should default QGIS only be suitable for creating generic city-level maps?
> With few exceptions that seems to be all the current SBG symbols are aimed
> at (that and depicting multi-cultural religious stuff... :-? ). Sure,
> that's a good base, but how many people actually do just that?
>
> The thing with complex tools like QIGS is that outside of the core,
> everyone uses different features. I'd point out that QGIS already has
> numerous tools that are to some degree domain specific (explicitly or
> implicitly): Hydrology, Network Analysis, Geostatistics, etc. Assuming
> sensible tooling around discovering like the Processing Toolbox now has, I
> think more icons would make things better for everyone. I'm definitely not
> suggesting adding all icons, but certainly a healthy chunk of new ones to
> cover a larger set of use-cases than the current set do.
>
>
> On 2020-07-28 11:24, Charles Dixon-Paver wrote:
>
> No to waylay to furore, but these use cases seem pretty fringe to me (no
> for general use) and are the type of thing that is catered for by the
> resource sharing plugin.
>
> If the goal is to improve usability, including all of the fa icons seems
> counter intuitive to me.
>
> Regards
>
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 11:58, Jonathan Moules <
> jonathan-lists at lightpear.com> wrote:
>
>> 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> <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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