OSGeo map symbol set
Motivation
The OSGeo Cartographic Library and all software projects obviously need a free map symbol set.
Available Material
- See also OSGeo icon set
- GRASS GUI icons: visual dictionary
- Free map symbol sets from GFOSS.it: Simboli cartografici: trees, geology, meteorology and north arrows
- Cartography symbols from GRASS
- GpsDrive and 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.
- 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) Topo Symbols
- BLM International Recreation Symbols
- Emergency Management (Homeland Security Working Group of FGDC)
- FGDC Digital Cartographic Standard for Geologic Map Symbolization http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/fgdc_gds/geolsymstd/download.php
- GeoServer default SLDs: http://svn.codehaus.org/geoserver/trunk/configuration/release/styles/ (useful?)
- AtlasStyler collection of SE symbols and SVGs: http://en.geopublishing.org/openmapsymbols/
- IAN Symbol Libraries SVG FREE http://ian.umces.edu/symbols/
- Open Icon Library - a free and open Icon collection, PNG: http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/
- Map Icons Collection, (CC BY SA 3.0): http://mapicons.nicolasmollet.com/
- OpenCPN's collection of SVG sources + XPM, and PNG marker symbols (git repo; GPL >= v2)
- Add more here ...
Other Technology
(please keep focus on free as in freedom technologies which we can distribute and make use of without barriers)
Microsoft has a symbol server
Symbol Availability
see also the GpsDrive/OpenStreetMap matrix above
| 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.
- QGIS has a way of swapping fill color on SVG if you add some tags
- How to convert Fonts to SVG
Interested people
- Markus Neteler (proposer)
- Dave Sampson
- Martin Landa: GRASS developer
- Wolf Bergenheim
- Stefan A. Krüger: AtlasStyler developer
- Maksim Sestic
- Alex Mandel
- Hamish: GRASS, GpsDrive dev
- Brian Hamlin
- Milena Nowotarska
- Anders Söderman
- Michael Diener