David, Do you have a reference for the symbols you're talking about. I'm pretty sure I know what you mean but a list of image of them would be really useful, maybe on a NOAA website?
Thanks, Alex On 11/17/2010 07:27 AM, David Fawcett wrote: > Alex, > > A few years ago, I was looking for an open licensed set of wind barbs > to use in a workshop. I have not been able to find a data set like > this that has a clean open license. Maybe one exists, but I couldn't > find one. > > I know that there is a reasonably small, but strong core of people > working with meteorological data in OpenSource Geospatial apps. This > isn't a priority for me, I don't really work with this data at all, > but I believe that there is a potential need out there if you are > looking for symbol sets to create. > > David. > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Alex Mandel <[email protected]> > wrote: >> As part of GIS day, Wed. November 17th a few of us at the University of >> California, Davis will be getting together to work on converting some >> symbols. Our focus is on getting US government agencies symbologies, >> which is public domain, into SVG format for use in programs like QGIS >> (That's what we'll be testing against). >> >> I'm taking requests if anyone else has symbols they want to see >> converted, please add it to the list or email me: >> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_map_symbol_set#Available_Material >> >> This 1/2 day event is a test run for future events where we can mass >> convert, tag and sort a large library of symbols. >> >> There are a few things I hope that we'll discuss tomorrow and in the >> future on the [email protected]. The first is how to sort or tag >> symbols. Since symbols can be of a certain type but also belong to a set >> it will be good to find away to allow for this without having to store >> symbols twice. >> Second would be what size and format to store symbols in. Initially I'm >> thinking about how to store both inkscape and plain svg (and comparing >> them) along with batch auto-generation of png versions so that those >> won't have to be in a repository. >> >> Sorry for the short notice. I look forward to any input from the lists. >> >> Thanks, >> Alex _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
