Once you've got any completed fonts, it may be worth contributing them
to the Open Font Library: https://fontlibrary.org/
It already has a number of fonts that you may wish to draw from:
https://fontlibrary.org/en/search?category=dingbat&order= (reinventing
the wheel and all that) (and I learnt today that these are called
"dingbats").
Cheers,
Jonathan
On 2020-07-24 01:36, Nyall Dawson wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 23:38, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote:
This discussion starts to get into the value, it is a lot of work to gather up
these original or alternate sources ... both for end users migrating to open
source, and for OSGeo projects to do on their own.
I think this would be a great group project.
Brett has recently compiled a summary of these fonts and symbols here:
https://github.com/Saijin-Naib/ESRI-Fonts-Cheat-Sheets
What I think we should aim for is an equivalent of the "Liberation"
font package, which implements freely licensed equivalents of the
standard Windows font packages (Arial, Times New Roman, etc), with
identical font metrics and similar styling so that they can be used
effectively as a drop-in replacement.
What would be the next step to move forward with this and approach
osgeo for funding?
Kind regards,
Nyall
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 3:44 AM Brad Hards <br...@frogmouth.net> wrote:
I have no idea what is in the map fonts (or even what an ESRI map font is), but if
you're looking for the symbology for DNC and VMAP, (which sound vaguely like: ESRI NIMA
DNC LN, ESRI NIMA DNC PT, ESRI NIMA VMAP1&2 LN, ESRI NIMA VMAP1&2 PT) its
probably based on some variant of the NGA GeoSym stuff - MIL-HDBK-857A and
MIL-DTL-89045/A
If you're prepared to deal with converting CGM to whatever that font thing is,
you can download the definitions from the NGA GWG Portrayal Working Group at
https://gwg.nga.mil/pfg_documents.php (expect a cert warning)
The ESRI Mil2525C Modifiers and some of those MilSym / MilMod things might be
MIL-STD-2525 (aka STANAG APP-6) symbology. Not usually treated as a font
though....
Brad
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On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 01:13, Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com> wrote:
for my understanding, and hopefully help others, I assume the issue is that you
have a style definition where there are tuples of (font_identifier,
symbol_identifier_in_the_font) to define the styling of layers with point
geometries, right ?
Partially, but the "bigger picture" is that there's just no alternative freely
available version of many of these symbol graphics themselves. That's the blocker that
I've encountered.
If that's only the former, then assuming there would be N open fonts already
covering the whole set of ESRI symbology fonts (unlikely), one could possibly
create a mapping between each tuple of (ESRI_font_id, ESRI_symbol_id) to
(OPEN_font_id, OPEN_symbol_id). If the later, then you need a complete
replacement for each proprietary font.
It's the later.
How many symbols / fonts are we discussing about ?
There's about 73 fonts total (see list below, may not be complete), which
average about 100 icons apiece.
ESRI AMFM Electric
ESRI AMFM Gas
ESRI AMFM Sewer
ESRI AMFM Water
ESRI ArcPad
ESRI Arrowhead
ESRI Business
ESRI Cartography
ESRI Caves 1
ESRI Caves 2
ESRI Caves 3
ESRI Climate & Precipitation
ESRI Commodities
ESRI Conservation
ESRI Crime Analysis
ESRI Default Marker
ESRI Dimensioning
ESRI Elements
ESRI Enviro Hazard Analysis
ESRI Enviro Hazard Incident
ESRI Enviro Hazard Sites
ESRI Environmental & Icons
ESRI ERS Infrastructures S1
ESRI ERS Operations S1
ESRI Fire Incident NFPA
ESRI Geology AGSO 1
ESRI Geology
ESRI Geology USGS 95-525
ESRI Geometric Symbols
ESRI Hazardous Materials
ESRI Hydrants
ESRI IGL Font16
ESRI IGL Font20
ESRI IGL Font21
ESRI IGL Font22
ESRI IGL Font23
ESRI IGL Font24
ESRI IGL Font25
ESRI Meteorological 01
ESRI Mil2525C Modifiers
ESRI MilMod 01
ESRI MilMod 02
ESRI MilRed 01
ESRI MilSym 01
ESRI MilSym 02
ESRI MilSym 03
ESRI MilSym 04
ESRI MilSym 05
ESRI NIMA City Graphic LN
ESRI NIMA City Graphic PT
ESRI NIMA DNC LN
ESRI NIMA DNC PT
ESRI NIMA VMAP1&2 LN
ESRI NIMA VMAP1&2 PT
ESRI North
ESRI Oil, Gas, & Water
ESRI Ordnance Survey
ESRI Pipeline US 1
ESRI Public1
ESRI SDS 1.95 1
ESRI SDS 1.95 2
ESRI SDS 2.00 1
ESRI SDS 2.00 2
ESRI Shields
ESRI Surveyor
ESRI Telecom
ESRI Transportation & Civic
ESRI US Forestry 1
ESRI US Forestry 2
ESRI US MUTCD 1
ESRI US MUTCD 2
ESRI US MUTCD 3
ESRI Weather
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