[GRASS-dev] symbols

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Hi all.
On the web site of the IT GFOSS community we have a set of symbols for
special aplications (trees and geology):
http://www.gfoss.it/download/
It would be good to include in the standard QGIS and GRASS distribution,
I believe.
pc
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On the web site of the IT GFOSS community we have a set of symbols for
special aplications (trees and geology):
http://www.gfoss.it/download/
It would be good to include in the standard QGIS and GRASS distribution,
I believe.

They are very nice. For a long time I have wanted more symbols.

two caveats:

- svg format: GRASS currently doesn't read SVG format, they would have to
be translated into .eps for ps.map or GRASS's vectorized icon format for else.
see the wiki page and the d.graph help page.

- creative commons license: I'm not educated enough to read the license found
on the site, but wonder about the implications of mixing apparently non-GPL
bits in with our code.
?

see wiki page for add-on symbols:
   http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/IconSymbols

regards,
Hamish

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Hamish,

Is there an easy way to add new symbols? How is it done; what is the expected format? Maybe a better question, should there be some easy way to add symbols?

Regards,
Tom

Hamish wrote:

On the web site of the IT GFOSS community we have a set of symbols for
special aplications (trees and geology):
http://www.gfoss.it/download/
It would be good to include in the standard QGIS and GRASS distribution,
I believe.
    
They are very nice. For a long time I have wanted more symbols.

two caveats:

- svg format: GRASS currently doesn't read SVG format, they would have to
be translated into .eps for ps.map or GRASS's vectorized icon format for else.
see the wiki page and the d.graph help page.

- creative commons license: I'm not educated enough to read the license found
on the site, but wonder about the implications of mixing apparently non-GPL
bits in with our code.
?

see wiki page for add-on symbols:
   http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/IconSymbols

regards,
Hamish

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Hi Hamish.
Glad you liked it. Converting the symbols is not a problem.
As for the licence, I'm in contact with original authors, and I think
there are no major problems changing it to a GPL-compatible one.
Just let me know which one you prefer, and I'll do my best.
pc

Hamish ha scritto:

On the web site of the IT GFOSS community we have a set of symbols for
special aplications (trees and geology):
http://www.gfoss.it/download/
It would be good to include in the standard QGIS and GRASS distribution,
I believe.

They are very nice. For a long time I have wanted more symbols.

two caveats:

- svg format: GRASS currently doesn't read SVG format, they would have to
be translated into .eps for ps.map or GRASS's vectorized icon format for else.
see the wiki page and the d.graph help page.

- creative commons license: I'm not educated enough to read the license found
on the site, but wonder about the implications of mixing apparently non-GPL
bits in with our code.
?

see wiki page for add-on symbols:
   http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/IconSymbols

regards,
Hamish

--
Paolo Cavallini
http://www.faunalia.it/pc

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Hamish,

Sorry about the stupid questions — to quick and did not read your response before writing…

Tom

Hamish wrote:

On the web site of the IT GFOSS community we have a set of symbols for
special aplications (trees and geology):
http://www.gfoss.it/download/
It would be good to include in the standard QGIS and GRASS distribution,
I believe.
    
They are very nice. For a long time I have wanted more symbols.

two caveats:

- svg format: GRASS currently doesn't read SVG format, they would have to
be translated into .eps for ps.map or GRASS's vectorized icon format for else.
see the wiki page and the d.graph help page.

- creative commons license: I'm not educated enough to read the license found
on the site, but wonder about the implications of mixing apparently non-GPL
bits in with our code.
?

see wiki page for add-on symbols:
   http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/IconSymbols

regards,
Hamish

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FAX: 937-383-0033

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Hi Paolo

If they are in SVG then it would be worth investigating for QGIS post 0.9.0 release. The way to go would be to submit a patch. Note I tried before to add a large library of free svgs from freeclipart.org I think it was and experienced considerable slowdowns in the dialogs that display svgs for symbol selection, so if its a large archive you have we will need to consider using a file selection dialog rather to let the user choose their symbols…

Regards

Tim

Em 27/07/2007, às 07:53, Paolo Cavallini escreveu:

Hi all.
On the web site of the IT GFOSS community we have a set of symbols for
special aplications (trees and geology):
http://www.gfoss.it/download/
It would be good to include in the standard QGIS and GRASS distribution,
I believe.
pc

Paolo Cavallini
http://www.faunalia.it/pc

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