Adrian Custer wrote:
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.
On some of the more interesting projections it pays to have more then
one of them ;-)
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.
That is great - I love the lanyard.
You know I never considered making it point north - when I work with a
hand held compass I almost never am actually walking north :-) I should
probably remove the "N", not sure why I put it in.
1) GeoTools -> Geotools
because you don't use the capital T anywhere else.
Actually I was amused when people went to the trouble to use the
coloring on the home page.
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.
If we remove the "N" can we keep the earth in the expected orientation?
A minor detail indeed but one that seems apt for a toolkit concerned
with such transformations,
:-)
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.
I only rounded the corners so we had a better chance at looking like
anything at 16x16 pixels - feel free to leave them pointed. Indeed they
often are so you can draw lines on a map for orienteering.
Thanks for the fun email,
Jody
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