Hi Bob, Sure is possible. First, you need to make the icon into an SVG file. If you have Adobe Illustrator, you can open the PDF you provided a link to, isolate or copy the graphic and save it as SVG. Inkscape is another good (free) tool, but it cannot open PDFs, so you will need to trace the graphic.
Once it is an SVG, just place the file into the QGIS svg directory somewhere (e.g., C:\OSGeo4W\apps\qgis-unstable\svg), and it will be available as a point symbol next time you open QGIS. The symbol size can be based on a numeric attribute of the layer by setting Properties > Symbology > Drawing by field > Area scale (the location of this option depends on which version of QGIS, I'm using 1.4.0). -Mike On 26 February 2010 10:31, Bob and Deb <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am interested in mapping landslides using the symbols found here: > http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/fgdc_gds/geolsymstd/fgdc-geolsym-sec17.pdf . > > Can I do this with qgis? If I can do this in qgis, I would also like > to have qgis scale some of these symbols so that they are proportional > to the size and direction of the landslide. How do I do that? > > Thanks in advance! > > Bob > _______________________________________________ > 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
