Difference between revisions of "OSGeo icon set"

Latest revision as of 10:06, 3 May 2021

Motivation

To help to create a consistent graphical user interface experience for free and Open Source Software for GIS (Slight modification from Tango's motivation)

Background

The Tango Desktop Project has been launched to do the same for the broader foss world. It has defined an icon style guide and uses the freedesktop.org icon naming specification. By using the same guidelines for the OSGeo icon set we can use the already vast set of standard icons available through the Tango project. The goal of the OSGeo Icon Set is to create the GIS-specific icons required by various software projects.

Available Material

See also OSGeo map symbol set
Tango's base icon set
GIS icon set Robert Szczepanek has created a GIS icon theme inspired by the Tango Project. We can use this as a starting point for the general OSGeo Icon Set.
Toolbar icons for GIS applications (2008) by Robert Szczepanek, Geoinformatics FCE CTU 2008
uDig Imagery Guidelines
Mapbox icons (BSD License)
latest 2017: https://github.com/Cracert/GIS-icons
latest 2021: https://github.com/Viglino/font-gis (SVG GIS related icons)

Required Icons

A list of the GIS specific icons, preferably with their names according to the icon naming specification

Basic GIS object

	Name	Description	Comment
	map
	mapset
	layer
	layer-raster
	layer-vector
	layer-db
	layer-wfs
	layer-wms
	layer-gps
	point
	vertex
	line
	polygon
	polygon-island
	polygon-ring

Basic GIS action

	Icon name	Description	comment
	layer-create
	layer-delete
	layer-add
	layer-edit
	layer-open
	layer-save
	layer-import
	layer-export
	layer-redraw

View actions

	Icon name	Description	comment
	zoom-in
	zoom-out
	zoom-layer
	zoom-extent
	zoom-last
	zoom-refresh
	zoom-selection
	view

Interested people

Steven M. Ottens (proposer)

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 == Available Material ==
+* See also [[OSGeo map symbol set]]
 * [http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library Tango's base icon set]
-* [http://robert.szczepanek.pl/icons.php QGIS icon set] Robert Szczepenak has created a QGIS icon theme inspired by the Tango Project. We can use this as a starting point for the general OSGeo Icon Set.
+* [http://robert.szczepanek.pl/icons.php GIS icon set] Robert Szczepanek has created a GIS icon theme inspired by the Tango Project. We can use this as a starting point for the general OSGeo Icon Set.
+* [http://geoinformatics.fsv.cvut.cz/wiki/index.php/Toolbar_icons_for_GIS_applications#Behind_the_scene_.E2.80.93_meaning_of_words_and_symbols Toolbar icons for GIS applications (2008)] by Robert Szczepanek, Geoinformatics FCE CTU 2008
+* [http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/DEV/Imagery uDig Imagery Guidelines]
+* [http://mapbox.com/documentation/maki-icon-set Mapbox icons] (BSD License)
+* latest 2017: https://github.com/Cracert/GIS-icons
+* latest 2021: https://github.com/Viglino/font-gis (SVG GIS related icons)
 == Required Icons ==
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 A list of the GIS specific icons, preferably with their names according to the icon naming specification
-'''Basic GIS object'''
+=== Basic GIS object ===
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-'''Basic GIS action'''
+=== Basic GIS action ===
 {| border="0" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="2" align="full"
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 | view
 |}
+== Interested people ==
+* [[User:Stvn|Steven M. Ottens]] (proposer)
 [[Category: Software Stack]]