On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:04 PM, jjg <j.j.gr...@gmx.fr> wrote: > Hi Etienne > > > Etienne Tourigny-3 wrote >> >> In fact - I found that things that were missing: >> 1) a list of gradients and their variants (e.g. ColorBrewer) >> 2) names associated to the various directories/authors >> 3) metadata of your "Selections". >> > > 1) the list of gradients is just the list of their file names, so no > problem there. "Variants" is problematic, since who is to say > what is a variant of what? This is very subjective (and what > actually is the point of it?)
Iif you use a browser interface (like I implemented) it can get very crowded. For example, the Color Brewer gradients have 7 variants each - no sense in having 7 entries for the same palette. I *think* I resolved most variants, they have a same prefix and usually end with incremental numbers. When you present the palettes in a big page (like on your website), it's ok to show them all, but in an application I find it's easier to group them. > > 2) The author of each gradient can be found from COPYING.xml. > If you start from a path like a/b/c/d.svg then there will be > one COPYING.xml file corresponding to it, and it is in one of > > a/b/c/COPYING.xml > a/b/COPYING.xml > a/COPYING.xml > > i.e, a COPYING.xml applies to that directory and all subdirectories. > > I can see it might be useful to have a description for each > subdirectory. Say > - short name (same as directory name) > - long name (essentialy the text in the directory link on parent > directory) > - description (essentially the first sentence of the page text) > so > "seq" > "sequential" > "Sequential colour schemes designed by Cynthia Brewer" > This info in a file called DESC.xml in the directory cpt-city/cb/seq/ Yes that would be great, especially the description and long name. You might put all information (description and copyright) in one file though. > > I'm open to suggestions on this. > > 3) is a different matter altogether, some of these selections are updated > every day (most popular downloads etc), so I suggest we do the above > first an learn the lesson before trying this ... ok. It would be cool to have xml files for those eventually, or a way to parse the web pages that contain the lists. Also - Tim also wrote to me that it would be interesting to distribute within QGis a selection of gradients that allow distribution. Do you know how I could search the archive for such gradients - except for the obvious grep? On your site you write "those under GPL, Apache-like, Creative commons or MIT licences allow distribution (under some conditions)" - which restrictions are those, are they specified per-licence or per-author ? Thanks Etienne > > Jim > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Raster-colours-tp4991140p4992477.html > Sent from the Quantum GIS - Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer