Nice!!
On 28-07-2020 23:57, Charles Dixon-Paver 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
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
<jonathan-li...@lightpear.com <mailto:jonathan-li...@lightpear.com>> 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
<jonathan-li...@lightpear.com
<mailto:jonathan-li...@lightpear.com>> 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
<jonathan-li...@lightpear.com> <mailto:jonathan-li...@lightpear.com>
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/
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