Hi Alex,
You can use SVG files for polygon fills/patterns. But I suggest that
those pattern definitions should be treated/organized separately from
point symbols. In some cases point symbols may work as patterns or the
other way round, but in general they are separate.
SVG for line definitions: I only see it useful for marker lines. In the
new symbology you can use SVG as markers in a marker line - at a regular
interval or only at start/end or at the vertices.
Thank you for your initiative.
Andreas
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 01:00:30 -0800, Alex Mandel wrote:
On 02/22/2011 12:50 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
Hi all.
I think we should provide an opportunity for uploading sets of icons
and
styles, on the same infrastructure that we are going to use for
plugins.
I'd appreciate comments on this.
All the best.
It's already on the to do list for the django web app. I'm working
with
the OSGeo Graphics mailing list to try and coordinate efforts on this
since they've been thinking about the idea and have an svn folder for
it.
In particular I've already started on some tools to automate keeping
collections of icons in single svg files and using inkscape to split
them into individual files for application use, while preserving
metadata about the icons in the svg files themselves. My plan at this
point is to then use a Django app to catalog the keywords tags from a
specific field in the svg xml into a searchable database and then
replicate this functionality locally as a plugin (possibly future
core
item in symbology). Note, as far as I know this will only work for
point
symbology right now, I do not have a plan for lines or polygon fills
yet
but that's because they aren't svg based at this time.
The whole thing is still in the very early stages so I welcome
conversation on the topic and invite others to join OSGeo graphics to
really find a multi-app solution for the FOSS GIS community. It will
probably be a few months before we get anything up on the website,
since
there are much higher priorities for the plugin site that still need
to
be done.
Thanks,
Alex
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