Hi Richard, Nyall, Richard, I'm afraid I must respectfully disagree.
I've not encountered the QGIS Resource Sharing plugin before, and I'm not seeking to denigrate it, but it's not clear to me what the "QGIS Resource Sharing" plugin does based on the description, nor is it likely the sort of plugin I'd install. It also seems to be a case of needing to download a plugin and then from within that plugin download something else? So a kind of plugin within a plugin. It's turt^d^d plugins all the way down! :-) I'm of the view plugins should be for solving specific tasks, but that's a different thread. I definitely think a decent set of cartographic symbols is something that should come as default, especially as I doubt the vast majority of users add many, if any plugins (the most popular plugins seem to be QuickMapServies at 1.5million downloads, with Semi-automated classification coming second at 750k; no idea how many QGIS downloads there have been, but I'd be surprised if it's not at least 10x that).
Also, the current symbology is so random: There's cycle parking and cycle locking, but no cycle? No car but two taxis? Oh, and 5 (five!) aeroplanes to choose from, and multiple types of train. And that's just "transport". And *then* you've got another two aeroplanes under "GPS icons" (which is also where a car is!). :-o
> [Nyall] So while I'm all for expanding the set of including icons, I think we'd need someone to go through and cherry-pick a only a subset of the font awesome ones which are relevant for mapping purposes
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.
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/
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