Missing font, layers and plugin MapTiler

[Guts]

Hello,

First of all: thanks for sharing this awesome work! :pray:

I'm trying to reproduce the process to eventually publish a full tutorial on Geotribu but QGIS tells me there are some things are missing:

• the font .SF NS Text is missing (and some others). After a quick search, it seems to be Apple reserved font family no? Could you use only open or free fonts please?
• some of layers depend on the MapTiler plugin and point to an absolute path
• the MBTiles used for the speckle layer mus t be locally stored?
• I suggest that you use a service, with a name like ferrargis_db to store the DB connection, allowing a more flexible way to use a local db. If you agree, I can push a PR

[mclaeysb]

Thanks for this feedback, and sorry for the late reply. I have just pushed a version that already solves two points:

• The MapTiler layers were unused reference layers, and have been removed.
• The speckle layer source data is now included in the ./source folder.

For the font point: this is indeed a mac system Font. It seems to be added automatically by QGIS on mac, since it's not actually used in the map - only the fonts Helvetica or Youngbae (which is included) are used. If you have troubles with such fonts, you should be able to find-replace them in the .qgs file with Helvetica - with no effect on the map. I'm happy to welcome a pull request with this!

For the last point: using a more flexible database name would indeed have been a good option. Since the original map only exists for (what is approximately the current outline of) Belgium, I think osm_be is still a reasonable choice. I'm going to leave it as is, since changing it would require an expensive database dublication on my machine.

Thank you for your comments, which help me improve this project and make it more open.

It would be an honor to be featured on Geotribu and see this project live on in the OSGeo world.

Manuel