Great, Charles! I took the liberty to add the "Entire Font Awesome Free repo" to the directory of approved repositories for QGIS Resource Sharing. I installed the collection, and the QGIS Resource Sharing plugin reported that 1601 SVG files were recognised in the collection. The SVGs also showed up under "User Symbols-> Font Awesome icons" in the SVG groups.
Let me know if you would like me to remove it from the directory. Håvard On 28.07.2020 23:57, Charles Dixon-Paver wrote: > I hacked together a band-aid solution. Probably not production ready but > I would advocate for this system of having a small subset of these icons > included in QGIS core by default going forward (If any. It may be better > to just start a similar svg-library specifically for cartography, but > using what's available is a start I guess.). > > Pretty much any application specific purposes are well catered for by > the resource sharing plugin IMO. > > Cherry picked list of Font-Awesome icons for general map purposes: > https://github.com/zacharlie/fa4qgis > > Entire Font Awesome Free repo to use with the QGIS Resource Sharing Plugin: > https://github.com/zacharlie/fa4gis > > Happy to hand over custodianship of these to anyone who thinks they're > up to it . > > If people find these useful I could probably do similar for similar > libraries like feather, material or unicons. > > Regards > > On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 13:28, Jonathan Moules > <jonathan-li...@lightpear.com <mailto:jonathan-li...@lightpear.com>> wrote: > > > but these use cases seem pretty fringe to me (no for general use). > > Yes, and this then raises the question: how fringe is too fringe? An > ecologist is going to want a different set of symbols to a transport > planner to a meteorologist to a defence planner to a hydrologist to > a school teacher to a archaeologist to a geologist to a.... > > Should default QGIS only be suitable for creating generic city-level > maps? With few exceptions that seems to be all the current SBG > symbols are aimed at (that and depicting multi-cultural religious > stuff... :-? ). Sure, that's a good base, but how many people > actually do just that? > > The thing with complex tools like QIGS is that outside of the core, > everyone uses different features. I'd point out that QGIS already > has numerous tools that are to some degree domain specific > (explicitly or implicitly): Hydrology, Network Analysis, > Geostatistics, etc. Assuming sensible tooling around discovering > like the Processing Toolbox now has, I think more icons would make > things better for everyone. I'm definitely not suggesting adding all > icons, but certainly a healthy chunk of new ones to cover a larger > set of use-cases than the current set do. > > > On 2020-07-28 11:24, Charles Dixon-Paver wrote: >> No to waylay to furore, but these use cases seem pretty fringe to >> me (no for general use) and are the type of thing that is catered >> for by the resource sharing plugin. >> >> If the goal is to improve usability, including all of the fa icons >> seems counter intuitive to me. >> >> Regards >> >> On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 11:58, Jonathan Moules >> <jonathan-li...@lightpear.com >> <mailto:jonathan-li...@lightpear.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi Nyall, >> >> The problem is it's near impossible to know what people will >> use for symbology. >> >> > battery indicators >> >> Charging stations; indicators of expected charge during a >> Battery operated vehicle event; etc [although probably only >> need the empty one; the full rest can be created with >> symbology and a rectangle] >> >> > volume >> >> Mapping a festival; tracking noise complaints; etc >> >> > most of the "hand" ones >> >> I'd probably keep about half of them. The rotation variants >> are not needed of course, but quite a few hands could be used: >> hand-wash (I hear there's something going around...), >> hand-pointer, praying-hands, handshake, hand-rock, >> hand-holding (the variants can be created by symbology), >> hands, hand-sparkles. I can think of uses for all of these. >> >> It's obviously subjective but I'd lean on the side of >> including ones that look like they could be useful, especially >> given the suggestions around categorisation and search in my >> other thread which would improve discoverability. Remember >> people make maps of all manner of crazy things, and often >> subvert one symbol to mean another thing (with some tweaking) >> [or maybe that's just me ;-) ]. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Jonathan >> >> >> On 2020-07-28 01:43, Nyall Dawson wrote: >>> On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 21:08, Jonathan Moules >>> <jonathan-li...@lightpear.com> >>> <mailto:jonathan-li...@lightpear.com> wrote: >>>> I'd be happy to do that, though I'd note that what one person >>>> thinks is >>>> useless, would be useful to another person. Sure I'm struggling to >>>> conceive of a use for "alignment" or "bezier-curve", but a quick >>>> look >>>> suggests probably over 50% would be potentially useful. Over 80% >>>> if you >>>> remain open minded about how people use these things. >>> That's the kind of ones I was referring to. Also stuff like volume >>> up/down, battery indicators, the calender +/-/check icons, most of >>> the >>> "hand" ones, a bunch of the "user" ones. I can't see those EVER >>> being >>> used in a map! By the time you remove them and all the brand ones >>> then >>> you're probably down to about 20% of the original set. >>> >>> Nyall >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Jonathan >>>> >>>> >>>>> I second Regis plan: if someone forks (or even clones) the github >>>>> repo, and creates a simple script to morph it a little to resemble the >>>>> structure you need for the 'QGIS Resource Sharing' Plugin to work (see >>>>> [0] as simple example and [1] for the nice documentation of it), the >>>>> icons are one click away for users (plus another one to install the >>>>> plugin). >>>>> >>>>> And the more proper Resource set's we are having, the better our >>>>> style/icon resources will get. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> >>>>> Richard Duivenvoorde >>>>> >>>>> [0]https://github.com/rduivenvoorde/qgis-styles/ >>>>> [1]https://qgis-contribution.github.io/QGIS-ResourceSharing/ >>>>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org <mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> >> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
