Re: [Qgis-developer] Criticism of lack of symbols in QGIS

2012-02-06 Thread Alister Hood
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:54:29 +0100 From: Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Criticism of lack of symbols in QGIS To: qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org Message-ID: 4f2e6df5.7090...@faunalia.it Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Il 05/02/2012 11:05

Re: [Qgis-developer] Criticism of lack of symbols in QGIS

2012-02-05 Thread MORREALE Jean Roc
Hi, at the moment I don't think it woulb be wise to include that much symbols without changing the way they are presented to user. They have to be sorted in categories and never loaded all at once. Le 05/02/2012 00:07, Mayeul Kauffmann a écrit : Hi, This discussion came up already, but just

Re: [Qgis-developer] Criticism of lack of symbols in QGIS

2012-02-05 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 05/02/2012 11:05, MORREALE Jean Roc ha scritto: Hi, at the moment I don't think it woulb be wise to include that much symbols without changing the way they are presented to user. They have to be sorted in categories and never loaded all at once. Agreed; this has been discussed several

Re: [Qgis-developer] Criticism of lack of symbols in QGIS

2012-02-05 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I agree Andreas. Gray, Alex and I had a bit of a rant on IRC about this, well I did anyway ;) Another point to add is: Even if you do want to use tilemill, PostGIS is not needed. Tilemill takes shape, kml, postgis and a host of different formats. Saying I just give ESRI money so I don't have to

Re: [Qgis-developer] Criticism of lack of symbols in QGIS

2012-02-05 Thread Alex Mandel
On 02/05/2012 06:03 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote: Hi, I second that - please do not add additional SVG symbols without previously improving the tool to organize the symbols. We will only end up with tons of symbols (that only a minority needs) slowing down QGIS considerably when dealing with

Re: [Qgis-developer] Criticism of lack of symbols in QGIS

2012-02-05 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Alex, The problem is that the SVG specification to date does not contain any method for replacing values with parameters. The way Marco implemented it is inspired by the SVG parameters specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGParam/ and http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGParamPrimer/ but since this is

Re: [Qgis-developer] Criticism of lack of symbols in QGIS

2012-02-04 Thread Mayeul Kauffmann
Hi, This discussion came up already, but just in case this was forgotten: I generated a set of about 1000 svg color icons for QGIS, based on OSM icons. Available here as public domain: http://www.mediafire.com/?jiooxkbmyzgr0 Sample use visible in this video:

Re: [Qgis-developer] Criticism of lack of symbols in QGIS

2012-02-04 Thread Alexander Bruy
Hi, out community create a set of symbols for topographic maps. Currently this symbol set available in Russian [0] but we work on translating them into English [0] http://gis-lab.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27t=7985 2012/2/4 Gary Sherman gsher...@geoapt.com: Here is an article regarding

[Qgis-developer] Criticism of lack of symbols in QGIS

2012-02-03 Thread Gary Sherman
Here is an article regarding perceived shortcomings in QGIS: http://egis3.lacounty.gov/eGIS/tag/qgis/ -gary =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Gary Sherman GeoApt LLC http://geoapt.com Chair, QGIS PSC Book: http://geospatialdesktop.com We work virtually everywhere =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: [Qgis-developer] Criticism of lack of symbols in QGIS

2012-02-03 Thread Alex Mandel
On 02/03/2012 07:08 PM, Gary Sherman wrote: Here is an article regarding perceived shortcomings in QGIS: http://egis3.lacounty.gov/eGIS/tag/qgis/ -gary The good news I think we've identified that particular issue and have at least started down the road to solving. See the osgeo graphics

Re: [Qgis-developer] Criticism of lack of symbols in QGIS

2012-02-03 Thread Tyler Mitchell
FYI, I +others converted over 100 icons from pdf/font to svg in a 2 hour sprint a few months back. We should add something to pull them into QGIS source for inclusion. Only hold up was that I couldn't get the svg fill stuff worked out. Very cool - are these icons the ones that you can access

Re: [Qgis-developer] Criticism of lack of symbols in QGIS

2012-02-03 Thread Alex Mandel
On 02/03/2012 09:39 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote: FYI, I +others converted over 100 icons from pdf/font to svg in a 2 hour sprint a few months back. We should add something to pull them into QGIS source for inclusion. Only hold up was that I couldn't get the svg fill stuff worked out. Very