Nyall, for my understanding, and hopefully help others, I assume the issue is that you have a style definition where there are tuples of (font_identifier, symbol_identifier_in_the_font) to define the styling of layers with point geometries, right ? Or possibly some dataset layers whose fields also are characters which are the symbol_identifier_in_the_font (that is each feature points to a different symbol), but the whole layer field uses a single font ?
If that's only the former, then assuming there would be N open fonts already covering the whole set of ESRI symbology fonts (unlikely), one could possibly create a mapping between each tuple of (ESRI_font_id, ESRI_symbol_id) to (OPEN_font_id, OPEN_symbol_id). If the later, then you need a complete replacement for each proprietary font. How many symbols / fonts are we discussing about ? Even > > One common road block which I find I am encountering when > organisations are wanting to transition to open source software is > that they are dependant on the set of ESRI map symbology fonts. While > there is a large number of quality open-licensed map icon sets > available, there are currently none which are "drop-in" replacements > for these ESRI font symbol sets. > > Has anyone else run into this issue? Any suggestions for approaches to > overcome this? Would there be any interest in OSGEO funding creation > of openly licensed alternatives to these fonts? > > Cheers, > Nyall > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Spatialys - Geospatial professional services http://www.spatialys.com
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