Hey all, When I got Map pane working a week ago and it allowed me to *rotate* the map, I finally transcended a pet peeve which had been irking me since the days of arcview 2.0. Until this past week, there seemed no point in having a north arrow in a GIS software package when there was no way to change the orientation of the map.
However, when I saw the Geotools logo, I chuckled for having a north
arrow that distinctly did *not* point north. Here's a tweak to the logo
for your perusal.
Changes:
1) GeoTools -> Geotools
because you don't use the capital T anywhere else.
2) The -> An
out of deference to the possible other toolkits.
3) The pole of the earth is rotated to match the arrow.
because the other orientation makes the logo appear sloppy. The
interpretation that the earth is still spinning into position as
a compass arrow would would only dominate if the pole were in
any other position than straight up.
A minor detail indeed but one that seems apt for a toolkit concerned
with such transformations,
best,
adrian
The compass should have rounded corners but inkscape is not doing that
for me right now. Perhaps in the next revision of my mandrake desktop
that functionality will be working and I can update the logo.
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