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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Any idea when the icon image vector files themselves would be available?<br><br>Andrew, KA2DDO<br><br><div>> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:05:54 +0300<br>> From: hessu@hes.iki.fi<br>> To: aprssig@tapr.org<br>> Subject: Re: [aprssig] New icon images<br>> <br>> On Fri, 22 Aug 2014, SARTrack Admin wrote:<br>> <br>> > I see that you actually rotate your icons... Its a nice idea, and when it <br>> > comes to an airplane icon, which is an arrow anyway, that looks logical.<br>> > But when it is a car, you only only have to rotate it, but also flip it when <br>> > it goes in the oposite direction of the original drawing.<br>> <br>> Right. My code flips the airplane too, just to reduce code complexity. :)<br>> <br>> For the web site version, all rotations have been pregenerated during the <br>> software build process. It's a lot of little images, 19169 of them <br>> (number of symbols * overlays * rotations).<br>> <br>> > And how do you deal with icons which realy should never rotate (house), but <br>> > the direction data may not be exactly zero (and this may happen). Do you have <br>> > additional data attached to an icon saying, 'never rotate'?<br>> <br>> I have a map/dictionary/hash of symbols which can be rotated, and the <br>> original direction they're pointing at in the source image. I can publish <br>> that together with the symbols if it's useful.<br>> <br>> NSDictionary *initDirectionalSymbols = @{<br>> @"/'": @0,<br>> @"/(": @90,<br>> @"/*": @90,<br>> @"/<": @90,<br>> @"/=": @90,<br>> @"/>": @90,<br>> @"/C": @90,<br>> @"/F": @90,<br>> @"/P": @90,<br>> @"/S": @0,<br>> ....<br>> <br>> Actually, here's the machine-readable CSV/JSON/XML/YAML -formatted symbol <br>> descriptions index which I published a couple months ago. I should put the <br>> degree values there, maybe. Bob's original list is a bit difficult to use <br>> in an application - whenever there are changes, they need to be manually <br>> merged in each application config. A machine-readable index might be <br>> helpful and easier to synchronize to apps.<br>> <br>> https://github.com/hessu/aprs-symbol-index<br>> https://github.com/hessu/aprs-symbol-index/tree/master/generated<br>> <br>> - Hessu<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> aprssig mailing list<br>> aprssig@tapr.org<br>> http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig<br></div> </div></body>
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