Difference between revisions of "OSGeo map symbol set"

Revision as of 19:24, 16 November 2010

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

GRASS GUI icons: visual dictionary
Free map symbol sets from GFOSS.it: Simboli cartografici: trees, geology, meteorology and north arrows

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

AtlasStyler collection of SE symbols and SVGs: http://en.geopublishing.org/openmapsymbols/

(please keep focus on free as in freedom technologies)

Microsoft has a symbol server

see also the GpsDrive/OpenStreetMap matrix above

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 ** 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]
 * GeoServer default SLDs: http://svn.codehaus.org/geoserver/trunk/configuration/release/styles/ (useful?)