Removing CC'es, I really dont like crossposting so I try not to do it. if this message is still relevant feel free to forward it.
Maybe a novel idea would be to make separate project on sourceforge that is svg clipart. Like svg-clipart.sf.net would be great.
not what sodipodi can do for you, ask what you can do for sodipodi" ;) Is an independent repository of svg better than an application-tied clipart gallery (like dia has fex)? The flag rally DID increase visibility of sodipodi, for example.
[is 'fex' the username of someone inlcuded in the crosspost? It is quite confusing I dont know the word at all]
Dia shapes/clipart/symbols could be made more generally reusable. Most of it is SVG based with some additional markup for things like connection points and I've said before that it could reasonably easily be converted to SVG with embedded Dia instead of dia with embedded SVG to simplify things for other applications.
Dia cannot yet reuse other projects SVG clipart (sodipodi flags, jimmacs fantastic icons and artwork) because it only has very simple SVG support (any an all help would be very much appreciated, the Dia developers always welcome patches, both simplifying and standardizing the SVG in the collections and getting Dia to handle namespaces properly are what is needed to start).
*Continuing the case for map symbols... (the wikitravel mapmaking thing really got me started ;)
Dia has some Map Symbols, if i recally correctly Ian Redfern used his perl scripting to generate files for Dia from PDF (and postcript i think), and i think he had plans to update his script to also generate pure SVG.
Having map symbols available in svg is nice (understatement) because it allows people to adapt the symbols to national requirements, traditions, overall design of the map etc. It will also be very useful for a lot of website design and even logo design. The designs could even, with a certain degree of exactness, be used for making actual roadsigns... (hence useful for municipalities, hence useful for promoting linux on the desktop
They could be used as a basis for another free-as-in-freedom dingbats font...
Symbol libraries, vectors, fonts, - head spinning. SVG seems to be the best format to standardize upon, I'll assume you mentioned dingbats because of some special license it has rather than suggesting using Fonts to store libraries of vector symbols.
Point is, it's useful, interesting and fun... :)
I'd love to see a shared library of clipart, preferably in a cleaned homogenized SVG and installed to a standard location (freedesktop.org anyone?) with a few categories that could be shared across any application that was interested (I'm thinking Gnome-office).
Sincerely
Alan Horkan.