Hi Jonathan, If you'd like to work on it and make it happen, probably the best place to start is opening an issue in the QGIS Enhancement Proposal: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues
And post the link to the dev list, so that all the ideas will be collected there and give you a clear path forward. Kind regards Saber On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 12:57, Jonathan Moules <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi List, > > The more I look at the current SVG icons, the more I'm thinking it > really needs some TLC (Tender Loving Care). As far as I can tell, icons > are categorised by the directory they're in, so if you want an icon to > appear in two categories, you put the icon in there twice... and so > that's just what has happened! I suspect the current set has simply > accreted over time. > > Examples of weirdnesses: > * The "food" and "entertainment" categories are basically identical, but > have different icons for the same thing. > * There are at least 7 near-identical aeroplane icons(!) > * There's cycle parking and cycle locking, but no cycle? No car (that's > under "gpsicons") but two taxis? Oh, and 5 (five!) aeroplanes to choose > from, and multiple types of train. And that's just "transport". > * "Shopping" has a hammer and a pawprint in it... well, I mean, you can > buy those things sure, but that seems like a rather odd place to put them. > * "landmark" seems to basically be a subset of "religion", with a museum > and a weird icon for a "school" thrown in for good measure. > > I'm sure there are many more. > > Given the importance of a good symbol library for cartography, this > seems like a fairly significant issue, but fortunately it's pretty > "easy" to fix (compared to writing a data processing algorithm anyway ;-) > ). > > My thoughts: > * Move the svg's into a single directory. (Though would break any > current projects symbology using them I guess?) > * Use a metadata file to categorise them, so you get a list of > categories as now and a single symbol can be in multiple categories. > * Add a search feature so the user can quickly find "museum" without > having to guess where it has been categorised. > * Clean up the current symbols by removing duplicates. > * Add the font-awesome symbols (per my thread on the User List) to fill > in the gaps and flesh out the collection. As a bonus, it comes with > metadata for categories and search terms (YAML files). > > * bonus - metadata is internationalised so "museo" (IT), "muzeu" (RO), > etc would also work for finding that museum. > > Thoughts? > > Cheers, > Jonathan > > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer -- Saber Razmjooei www.lutraconsulting.co.uk +44 (0)7568 129733
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