[Qgis-user] Font Awesome symbols in QGIS

Wed Jul 29 00:09:19 PDT 2020

Nice!!

On 28-07-2020 23:57, Charles Dixon-Paver wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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
>>     <mailto: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>  <mailto: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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