geometalab / osmaxx

OpenStreetMap Arbitrary Excerpt Export - Get the OpenStreetMap data you want in the file format you need
http://osmaxx.hsr.ch/
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create symbol font from point markers in individual SVG files #333

Closed hixi closed 8 years ago

hixi commented 8 years ago

create a pipeline, which allows to convert the created svg to a symbolfont and use that in QGis. Should be more or less automatically recreated whenever updated.

hixi commented 8 years ago

Maybe https://github.com/carrasti/pysvg2font is a possible candidate for use.

hixi commented 8 years ago

Converting to font (ttf) should be done for the svg at: https://github.com/geometalab/osmaxx-docs/tree/master/osmaxx-symbology/OSMaxx_point_symbols

For a comparison, also the original svgs should be converted to a font.

sfkeller commented 8 years ago

Creating a font with Windows from SVG input: