OSGeo map symbol set

== Motivation ==
The OSGeo Cartographic Library and all software projects obviously need a free map symbol set.
== Mailing List ==
This topic along with the OSGeo icon set (Toolbar button icons) are discussed on the Graphics mailing list
== Available Material ==
* Free map symbol sets from GFOSS.it: Simboli cartografici: trees, geology, meteorology and north arrows
* Cartography symbols from GRASS
* QGIS's symbols
* GpsDrive and OpenStreetMap maintain a repository of over one thousand 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) 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?)
: updated URL? http://svn.codehaus.org/geoserver/trunk/data/release/styles/
* 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)
* Google Road Symbols for QGIS
* The Noun Project (various sets as CC BY, CC0, Public Domain)
* Maki symbols from Mapbox (97 .svg POI symbols in 3 sizes, BSD licensed)
* Osmic (OSM Icons) (130+ SVG symbols (some in 2 sizes), CC0 licensed + icon font, SIL OFL licensed)
=== Related Material ===
* See also OSGeo icon set - (Toolbar button icons)
* GRASS GUI icons: visual dictionary (Toolbar button icons)
== 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
Category: Software Stack
Category: Public Geospatial Data Committee