Since we have been talking about geological symbol fonts… What is the level of interest in other geological tools? I would very much like to see the momentum in QGIS carry on into building tools in QGIS and/or PostGIS to support drilling, geochemistry and geophysics field surveys.
For example, I have run simple drill sections as “projections” with the data calculated in a spreadsheet. Recently I have been (enjoying!) processing magnetic surveys in R and building profiles for plotting in plan view along the survey lines. The tools are there to build a good exploration suite like those provided commercially for MapInfo and ESRI. Any other interest in this? Should we be more formalizing a project? John > On Jan 30, 2016, at 12:56 AM, gene <martin.lal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The solution we were using was a True Type font (Font marker symbol) with > geological symbols (as ArcGIS with the geology ttf symbols). We cannot use > directly this ESRI police ( FAQ: What are the applicable copyright > restrictions on Esri fonts?" > <http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/32155 > ) but > it is relatively easy to create a new True Type Font with geological symbols > with FontForge <https://fontforge.github.io/en-US/> . You draw the symbols > with a classical interface > > > <http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/file/n5248101/fontforge2.jpg> > > and you generate the True Type Font (look at QGIS and fonts as symbols, use > and creation with FontForge > <http://www.portailsig.org/content/qgis-et-les-polices-de-caracteres-comme-symboles-utilisation-et-creation-avec-fontforge> > > , in French but the figures are universal). You can even copy/paste a SVG > symbol as a new character of the font or export a character to a SVG file . > You can change the color and the size of a character without problem and it > is easy to distribute > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Geological-Map-Symbols-Continued-tp5248087p5248101.html > Sent from the Quantum GIS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
