PNG/SVG iconset gallery/browser

[IvanSanchez]

(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]

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]

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

[tmcw]

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

[yhahn]

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]

@yhahn - what was a misunderstanding exactly?

[yhahn]

the

but also remote (like a browser )

part.