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TileMill is a modern map design studio
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PNG/SVG iconset gallery/browser #923

Open IvanSanchez opened 12 years ago

IvanSanchez commented 12 years ago

(Please put a "wishlist" tag to this)

We know the font browser is cool. I like the favourites list in the datasource browser. Caching external data? Hell yeah.

But.

As of now, there is no (simple) way to add new icons (SVG/PNG files for the point and marker symbolizers) if you can't write to the data/ directory in the server TileMill is running.

Thus, a millstone-powered way to download icons or iconsets, plus a browser not unlike the font browser (copy&paste URL, let millstone resolve) would be a very welcome addition. I just dream of dropping icon miniatures to the point-file fields in the .mss editor.

springmeyer commented 12 years ago

Icon browser is an interesting idea. @IvanSanchez - you are aware that you can provide a web url to any icons, right? So, you don't have to put them in the /data directory - they can be read from anywhere on the local filesystem but also remote (like a browser )

IvanSanchez commented 12 years ago

No, I wasn't aware icons were millstone-powered already. Always good to know :-)

tmcw commented 12 years ago

Might want to get @yhahn's insight here from #33

yhahn commented 12 years ago

The above comment was a misunderstanding -- millstone currently doesn't localize urls that are within your carto stylesheets.

To make headway on this we'll need to get our hands dirty with that first.

springmeyer commented 12 years ago

@yhahn - what was a misunderstanding exactly?

yhahn commented 12 years ago

the

but also remote (like a browser )

part.