Icon Request: fa-gis-layers, fa-gis-buffer, fa-gis-difference, fa-gis-intersect, fa-gis-polygon, fa-gis-polyline, fa-gis-point, fa-gis-freehandpolygon, fa-gis-freehandpolyline, fa-gis-project, fa-gis-service

[larswise]

Would be awesome if someone would add some icons for use in modern mapping applications (GIS).

[tagliala]

this request contains duplicate here and there

You should also provide examples because some icons could be also useful for other scenarios

if #3559 #3558 #3557 #3556 contains icons you are requesting, please +1 those requests

At this point I don't know what is the best approach, because if we have a "icon request: Gis icons" this may become like #171 or #991 (in terms of number of icons requested)

Leaving this open and waiting for feedback

[stuporglue]

"+1 those requests" -- do you want me/us to just leave a "+1" comment on them, or just subscribe to them?

One more GIS icon that we could use is an icon to represent a map, maybe like the globe icon, but square.

[vtforester]

+1

A release containing a bunch of GIS related icons would be nice. All of the ones mentioned above (#3559 #3558 #3557 #3556) are fairly commonplace. #1179 is another very common one.

[joaoponceleao]

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  A sub-collection (i.e. fa-gis-xxx, or fa-geo-xxx) would be helpful for those of us using any kind of mapping / geographic libraries, though it would not need so many icons to start with.
  On a related note, reorganising font-awesome with sub-collections (either by renaming / adding aliases to existing icons, or even better, using extra packages) would make navigating the increasing number of icons much easier.

[pconnell99]

+1 especially for fa-gis-layers - That's a useful icon to have, really thought it was in the current fontset.

[tagliala]

Hi,

I have to close this one because we had to update our contributing guidelines to deal with requests like this: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#requesting-new-icons

Please do not request comprehensive sets of icons related to a very specific field.

@joaoponceleao a very limited sub collection could be considered if proper requests will be opened.

By the way I should suggest to anyone interested to consider a custom build of fontawesome: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/wiki/Customize-Font-Awesome

[joaoponceleao]

@tagliala
Completely agree with closing this. FontAwesome is becoming too bloated in my view: sub-collections that can be added to custom builds would be how I would vote for this sort of thing. Would allow Font-awesome to concentrate on core functionality (like providing a service such as fontello/fonticons), and on curating a list of sub-collections (the problem with those custom builds is that there is too much duplication/options of icons).

Thanks for the link. That is how I decided to go forward with custom icons a while ago (after realising that svg icons are too hard to maintain) - did not realise that it was officially sanctioned by FontAwesome.