OSGeo map symbol set

2010-11-17T06:04:09Z

Wiki-AndersSweden: /* Interested people */

== Motivation ==

The [[OSGeo Cartographic Library]] and all software projects obviously need a '''free''' map symbol set.

== Available Material ==

* GRASS GUI icons: [http://robert.szczepanek.pl/icons.php visual dictionary]
* Free map symbol sets from GFOSS.it: [http://www.gfoss.it/drupal/simboli Simboli cartografici]: trees, geology, meteorology and north arrows

* [http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/IconSymbols Cartography symbols] from GRASS

* [http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/browser/trunk/qgis/images QGIS's symbols]

* [http://www.gpsdrive.de GpsDrive] and [http://www.openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap] maintain a repository of c. '''''hundreds''''' of Point Of Interest (POI) rasterized and SVG symbol icons under a permissive OSS license. Things like "banks" and "hospitals" are very well covered.
: see http://www.gpsdrive.de/development/map-icons/overview.en.shtml
:: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Symbol_Rendering
:: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tags_to_Symbols_Mapping
:: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmarender/Symbols

* US Government
** National Park Service (public domain) http://www.nps.gov/hfc/carto/map-symbols.htm
** Arc symbols for wildland fire (public domain?) http://gis.nwcg.gov/gstop_symbol.html
** US Geologic Survey (public domain) [http://egsc.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/booklets/symbols/topomapsymbols.pdf Topo Symbols]
** BLM [http://www.blm.gov/nstc/mapstandards/intlsym.html International Recreation Symbols]
** [http://www.fgdc.gov/HSWG/ref_pages/DownloadSymbols_ref.htm Emergency Management] (Homeland Security Working Group of FGDC)

* GeoServer default SLDs: http://svn.codehaus.org/geoserver/trunk/configuration/release/styles/ (useful?)
: updated URL? http://svn.codehaus.org/geoserver/trunk/data/release/styles/
* AtlasStyler collection of SE symbols and SVGs: http://en.geopublishing.org/openmapsymbols/

* Add more here ...

== Other Technology==

(please keep focus on free as in freedom technologies)

Microsoft has a [http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2007/09/01/symbol-server-transaction-manager/ symbol server]

== Symbol Availability ==

''see also the GpsDrive/OpenStreetMap matrix above''

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Symbol
! GFOSS.it
! GRASS
! OSGEO
! QGIS
|-
| '''Community'''
|
|
|
|-
| School
|
|
| NA
|
|-
| Recreation Centre
|
|
| NA
|
|-
| '''Emergency Services'''
|
|
|
|-
| Hospital
|
|
| NA
|
|-
| Police station
|
|
| NA
|
|-
| Fire station
|
|
| NA
|
|-
| Ambulance
|
|
| NA
|
|-
| '''Basic'''
|
|
| NA
|
|-
| Arrow
|
| yes
| NA
|
|-
| Box
|
| yes
| NA
|
|-
| Circle
|
| yes
| NA
|
|-
| '''Extras'''
|
|
| NA
|
|-
| Compass
|
| Yes
| NA
|
|-
| Airport
|
| Yes
| NA
|-
| Target
|
| yes
| NA
|
|-
| Dive Flag
|
| yes
| NA
|
|-
| '''Transportation'''
|
|
|
|
|-
| Information Centre
|
|
| NA
|
|-
| Bus Stop
|
|
| NA
|
|-
| Picnic Area
|
|
| NA
|}

== Format ==

* '''The preferred interchange format is SVG'''.

== Interested people ==

* [[User:Neteler|Markus Neteler]] (proposer)
* [[User:Dsampson|Dave Sampson]]
* [[User:Landa|Martin Landa]]: GRASS developer
* [[User:Wolf|Wolf Bergenheim]]
* [[User:Alfonx|Stefan A. Krüger]]: [http://en.geopublishing.org/AtlasStyler AtlasStyler] developer
* [[User:MaksimS|Maksim Sestic]]
* [[User:Wildintellect|Alex Mandel]]
* [[User:HamishBowman|Hamish]]: GRASS, GpsDrive dev
* [[User:darkblue_b|Brian Hamlin]]
* [[Milena_Nowotarska|Milena Nowotarska]]
* [[User:AndersSweden|Anders Söderman]]

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