It would be great if geological symbols that can be found in http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/2006/11A02 can be considered.
Robert Moskovitz California Geological Survey/Seismic Hazard Mapping Project http://gmw.conservation.ca.gov/shmp -----Original Message----- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Andrea Aime Sent: Fri 12/26/2008 2:17 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Symbology/styles exchange Hi, lately I was looking around for places where sample map styles, sample map symbols, and public discussions (forums/ml) about the topic of map making on web/desktop platforms. I've found something around, like the MapServer symbology exchange, or the italian OSGEO chapter site collecting some free SVG symbols. And some discussions as well, but sprinkled over various mailing list as part of a different main topic. The scenario is somewhat discouraging, and I was thinking of ways to improve the situation, have more users exchange, discuss and participate in a community of electonic map makers. What I have in mind is a platform like gnome-look.org allowing everyone to post and share their work, organize it in categories, have other people vote and comment/discuss Examples: - map symbols - map styles, be it SLD, mapfiles, mapnik config file, ESRI projects (why not?) - data itself, be it real downloadable data, or pointers to sites where the data is available Here are some user stories I have in mind for such a site: - a user has made a map is proud of. He posts on the site a screenshot of the map, the style used to create it, and the license under which the style is distributed. Other people can comment, eventually show how the same map can be created using a different GIS system - maybe the above map contains self made symbols (SVG, TTF, MapServer symbols, ...) that can be published in a map symbol sharing area of the same site - the same map is done using some data, maybe the data can be shared, or the map has been produced over some well known free data set. This would help others make the same map with another system, or take the initial map and propose variations/improvements on top of it Adding a forum where people can discuss about map making would be good as well. This would be in competition with the various support forums of the existing projects, so it has to provide something more than the existing ml do not provide. What that is, is comparisons between different products, approaches to make maps: that would break the user communities silos and stimulate some lively exchange on the merits of each platform (yeah that may degenerate sometimes, but I believe most of the times it would be healthy and very interesting for users and developers alike). How to pull something like this off? Well, it would be nice if gnome-look (as the site code) was open source, thought as of now I haven't found any indication of the code being available. The forum could be the usual php-bb or something like that. Maybe the above are not 100% suited to the task at hand, but it would be an easy start to see if the idea has merit and can pull togheter a community of users. Does anybody have suggestions on existing software platforms that could be used to put togheter such a site? Soo... wondering what other people think about this? I would be willing to put some of my time on this, but I'm already quite busy with other stuff in GeoServer/GeoTools land so I'm wondering if there is anybody else interested in such a thing? Cheers Andrea -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss