On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 at 07:57, Charles Dixon-Paver <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
Looking great! Don't forget to add the fill-opacity="param(fill-opacity)" and stroke-opacity="param(outline-opacity)" parameters too, so that the opacity can be controlled from the QGIS side... Nyall > > 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]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
