Hi, +1 for the style and icon repository! Maybe you will find useful ideas in the way openclipart.org manages collections and packages. One contributor of free icons (SJJB?) sometimes puts several icons in one file, see: http://www.openclipart.org/detail/12368
To generate sets of icons from gray scale icons (with or without boundary) you may want to have a look at the scripts I mentioned here: http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Using_OpenStreetMap_data#Add_new_OSM_icons It may be interesting to separate original svg icons that were designed to be modifiable with scripts and icons meant for end users. The above scripts replace strings in the xml so it's quite easy to understand and use, but I can help you modify it if you need to. For the metadata/information related to an icon, it could be useful to be able to add some information about its usage in QGIS (with wich style set(s) it is used and with which rule). For instance, there are already icons to represent those 2 different cases (with OSM data): tourism=alpine_hut AND heating=fireplace tourism=alpine_hut AND (heating=no OR [heating key does not exists]) Sharing this would allow the visitors to know how a specific icon is used without having to open all projects. It should be possible to extract the rules from the qml files. Just my 2 cents. Mayeul ----- Mail Original ----- De: "Alex Mandel" <[email protected]> À: [email protected] Envoyé: Mardi 22 Février 2011 10h00:30 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne Objet: Re: [Qgis-developer] icons and styles 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 _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
