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I guess adding arrows would mean generating SVG for them right? If someone can point me in the right direction and provide North Arrows they would want added to QGIS I could trace them in Inkscape maybe? I cant code too much but I can try this and see if it Works.

If this work I can start contributing other svg things like symbology etc.

Let me know either way

Hi !

A google-images search on "north arrows" gives a lot of ideas.

Please add only very simple, clean and pro-looking arrows (as a reminder, those are the one we removed from 1.9 : https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zmmew0jlgbosoe4/4pfYqrzizI).

Ok so I needed North Arrows and came back to this post where I was suppose to work on some.. anyway just to update I will create some North Arrows and Wind Roses, current ones are very few. Is there a download file of the old ones?

Hi

Bear in mind using N limits the application to a subset of our users. We should at least provide variants which have no N so that they can be used in contexts where N is not the letter for North.

Nice to see some effort to improve the north arrow selection though.

Tim

Hi everyone, I'd like to make a comment, but I'm a little scared/hesitant as I, am a long-time QGIS user (very long, hence the 0.x screen captures littered throughout the mapserver.org docs ha) but have not (yet) been involved with the development community. So please pardon me if I bring up an issue that has long been discussed (I fear this is the case). Here it goes...

Consistent feedback I get from students using the QGIS Print Composer is the confusion over adding a North arrow. Only me the teacher can figure out for them to Layout/Add Image/Search Directories. They them seem to lose any confidence in QGIS because there is a Layout/Add Arrow tool, that doesn't do what they assume it says it will.

Now I gather that the "Add Arrow" vs "Add North Arrow" is a localized issue. But how can we deal with this? I feel it is an important issue. Should the "Add Arrow" tool contain the same library of arrows as the Add Image tool does? Just wondering out loud.

Oh I did review the 3 arrow drafts, they look good Antonio!

-jeff

Antonio Locandro - 02 and 04 look fantastic! 03 is a bit confusing though with it's two arrows in opposing directions.

Nice additions! Are you able to turn them into a PR?

Concerning #03
Maybe it could be improved by making the South arrow a bit lighter and the North arrow darker. The N text looks a bit skewed as well.

Jeff: There was also Issue #10207 which was closed as a duplicate of this and had the same contents as your comment. I wonder if this issue here also involves this. Nyall, any opinion?

Consistent feedback I get from students using the QGIS Print Composer is the confusion over adding a North arrow. Only me the teacher can figure out for them to Layout/Add Image/Search Directories. They them seem to lose any confidence in QGIS because there is a Layout/Add Arrow tool, that doesn't do what they assume it says it will.

having the svg symbols organized in categories, as in vector properties style dialog, would help?

Giovanni - I am assuming you mean add categories to the Layout/Add Image/Search Directories? That helps, but, the reality is that users have no idea that they must 'add an image' in order to get a North arrow. The Layout/Add Arrow tool is the problem - could Layout/Add Arrow add a "Search Library" section in its "Item Properties", that uses the categories you refer to?

Thank you for you input Antonio and Asier!

Antonio, if you haven't created a pull request yet, please do so and add a link to the PR here. I think Tim also has a good point that it would be nice to have the north arrows with and without "N".

I hope I don't sound untactful, but for for me personally, Asier's north arrows are not yet of production quality. I like NorthArrow_10.svg but the others are still too rough in my opinion.

@Anita No offence taken