If it hasn't already been done, is there any chance of getting the USGS geological symbols onto one of the lists for conversion discussed here?? http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/fgdc_gds/geolsymstd/download.php
-ramon. On 18/11/2010, at 01:47 , Luca Lanteri wrote: > Hi, > > In the first part of the new year we are going to start a project, in > collaboration with an italian university, to create a symbols library mainly > for geologist and geomorphologist. > The library could be compatible with udig and qgis so we thought to use > mainly the svg for point symbol, but we will also use sld for poligon or more > complex symbol. > > In the immediate future we have to choose our standards and the simbol, but > we thought to start with the ISPRA (the Italian geological survey office) > library. > > I could send you to your private e-mail a pdf with the simbol library (about > 5 Mb) or you can download it at > http://www.apat.gov.it/site/_files/Quaderni/quaderno10/quad10_simboli.zip > > thanks > Luca > > 2010/11/17 Alex Mandel <[email protected]> > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
