The Symbology Exchange
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Share and enjoy symbolsets and URLs to cartographic icons. Would you like Google-esque streets, or to find an airplane logo that doesn't have white crud around it? Do you have a better railroad track than anyone else?
The Symbology Exchange
Making a two-color square is easy, but a two-color star looks crummy unless you have the sizes just right -- it took me hours to make up a set of icons at 6 sizes apiece. And I knew I wasn't alone. So welcome to the Symbology Exchange!
Please post a comment to the appropriate "sub-howto" showing your icon(s). Ideally, there would be the code for it in a code box (the style selector at the top, highlight it and select Literal) and maybe even an image to show what it looks like. Thanks for sharing, and we hope you find something you like!
Other Documents of Interest
- Mapfile reference: Style object -- The most basic documentation about how to use symbols.
- Symbology -- A manual about symbology and how it works. Includes some examples, too.
- Construction of Cartographic Symbols by Peter Freimuth -- A document outlining the concept of using multiple styles for a class to achieve more complex or multi-colored symbols.
This How-to applies to: Any version.
FOSS4G2008
