[Qgis-community-team] How to port USGS's symbology

[MORREALE Jean Roc]

Hi,

The USGS has made available a whole set of graphical symbology for
geological cartography, the final draft is from 2006 and readable here
-> http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/fgdc_gds/

It covers lines, symbols, patterns. You can use them trough *.eps, *.ai
swatches, *.pdf or arcgis template. I've been using them with Adobe
Illustrator and Arcgis 9.3 for geological maps and the result is great
so I would like to port them to Quantum GIS. I've read about Martin's
symbology work on the wiki but haven't found how to do a template.

These graphics are public domain, the USGS's people I've been talking to
are interested by another implementation of this standard (as they said,
they often have inquiries for it but nothing to point to except
Illustrator and ArcGIS).

Regards,
MORREALE Jean Roc

[maning sambale]

For point symbols, you can convert them to individual svg files. Then
add them to the icon/svg folder of qgis.
Not sure with lines and patterns.

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:34 PM, MORREALE Jean Roc

Post by MORREALE Jean Roc
Hi,
The USGS has made available a whole set of graphical symbology for
geological cartography, the final draft is from 2006 and readable here ->
http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/fgdc_gds/
It covers lines, symbols, patterns. You can use them trough *.eps, *.ai
swatches, *.pdf or arcgis template. I've been using them with Adobe
Illustrator and Arcgis 9.3 for geological maps and the result is great so I
would like to port them to Quantum GIS. I've read about Martin's symbology
work on the wiki but haven't found how to do a template.
These graphics are public domain, the USGS's people I've been talking to are
interested by another implementation of this standard (as they said, they
often have inquiries for it but nothing to point to except Illustrator and
ArcGIS).
Regards,
MORREALE Jean Roc
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[Giovanni Manghi]

Hi,

there are also a couple of tickets about available symbols to be added to qgis

https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/746

https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1694


cheers

-- Giovanni --

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:34 AM, MORREALE Jean Roc

Post by MORREALE Jean Roc
Hi,
The USGS has made available a whole set of graphical symbology for
geological cartography, the final draft is from 2006 and readable here ->
http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/fgdc_gds/
It covers lines, symbols, patterns. You can use them trough *.eps, *.ai
swatches, *.pdf or arcgis template. I've been using them with Adobe
Illustrator and Arcgis 9.3 for geological maps and the result is great so I
would like to port them to Quantum GIS. I've read about Martin's symbology
work on the wiki but haven't found how to do a template.
These graphics are public domain, the USGS's people I've been talking to are
interested by another implementation of this standard (as they said, they
often have inquiries for it but nothing to point to except Illustrator and
ArcGIS).
Regards,
MORREALE Jean Roc
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[MORREALE Jean Roc]

Post by Giovanni Manghi
Hi,
there are also a couple of tickets about available symbols to be added to qgis
https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/746
https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1694
cheers
-- Giovanni --

The idea in #746 of a symbols repository would be great as having users
to modify CMakeLists.txt is a definite no-no.