Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Free licensed alternative to ESRI map fonts

2020-07-24 Thread Nyall Dawson
individually also works. > > There is a PDF on osgeo GitHub on how to do this kind of thing ... Thanks Jody! Have you got a link to this PDF? Nyall > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 5:36 PM Nyall Dawson wrote: >> >> On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 23:38, Jody Garnett wrote: >&g

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Free licensed alternative to ESRI map fonts

2020-07-23 Thread Nyall Dawson
the NGA GWG Portrayal Working >> Group at https://gwg.nga.mil/pfg_documents.php (expect a cert warning) >> >> The ESRI Mil2525C Modifiers and some of those MilSym / MilMod things might >> be MIL-STD-2525 (aka STANAG APP-6) symbology. Not usually treated as a font >&g

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G for cartography production

2020-07-22 Thread Nyall Dawson
On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 at 10:46, Adam Steer wrote: > > I should point out that my own usage of inkscape / gimp is because of > 'reversion to the familiar' rather than 'QGIS is missing stuff'. > > Eli and Nyall are right, QGIS has a *lot* to offer before any need to export > and manually touch up!

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G for cartography production

2020-07-22 Thread Nyall Dawson
On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 at 02:04, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA wrote: > > Hi. Where I work we need to find an open alternative to ArcGIS in order to > produce maps for printing. We were trying with QGIS but we have problems with > labeling linear elements. I'd be very curious to hear more about this --

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Free licensed alternative to ESRI map fonts

2020-05-11 Thread Nyall Dawson
On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 01:13, Even Rouault wrote: > for my understanding, and hopefully help others, I assume the issue is that > you have a style definition where there are tuples of (font_identifier, > symbol_identifier_in_the_font) to define the styling of layers with point > geometries,

[OSGeo-Discuss] Free licensed alternative to ESRI map fonts

2020-05-05 Thread Nyall Dawson
Hi list! One common road block which I find I am encountering when organisations are wanting to transition to open source software is that they are dependant on the set of ESRI map symbology fonts. While there is a large number of quality open-licensed map icon sets available, there are currently

[OSGeo-Discuss] GSOC: will mentor QGIS projects

2019-01-31 Thread Nyall Dawson
Hey all, If anyone's interested in applying for the GSOC this year and is looking for a QGIS project, I'm available for mentoring in any of the following code areas: - Processing, including vector/raster data processing algorithms, optimisation of existing algorithms, and modelling improvements

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [QGIS-Developer] GRASS GIS (trunk) and python 3 - testing welcome

2019-01-28 Thread Nyall Dawson
On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 01:45, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote: > > Dear OSGeo community, > > the GRASS GIS dev team is working on a python 3-support/transition [1] of the > source code in trunk [2]. That's fantastic news -- great work GRASS team! Nyall > > winGRASS GIS 7.7svn daily builds with python

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] withdrawal from Board election

2017-10-21 Thread Nyall Dawson
On 22 October 2017 at 07:20, Massimiliano Cannata wrote: > Dear Jeff, > I hope your withdrawal is not accepted. > +1 from me too. Nyall ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org