OSGeo icon set

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)