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 <[email protected]> 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 < > [email protected]> 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<[email protected]> >> <[email protected]> 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 >> [email protected] >> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > >
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