I couldn't agree more that decent / well organised symbol sets (either bitmap or TTF style) seem to be in short supply. My main issue with the current set in MapInfo / MapX is that they are poorly presented / classified, not so much that they couldnt cover most of my or my customer's requirements. When I went searching for standards/symbol sets, I had the same result as you - not much seems to have been done. However, geologists seem to have their act together with good sets and standards. So here are my findings in no particular order. Some of the references below may have sufficient quality graphics that you could turn them into BMPs with some very tedious work. 1.. I dont think I was able to find downloadable TTFs on the ESRI site, but this link http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/esri/index.htm has 8 Esri fonts. 2.. Downloading and installing ArcPad (free) gives you sets of free fonts, but it was a while ago and cant comment on the quality. 3.. USGS symbol standards for topo maps are presented here: http://www.mytopo.com/background_topo.cfm, but these are mainly areal fill patterns rather than point symbols - would be nice to have in MI one day though. 4.. Exhaustive geology symbol standards/definitions here ... http://ncgmp.usgs.gov/fgdc_gds/mapsymb/mapsymbpdfs.html These have great detail, but has someone created these region/line/point styles for MapInfo? 5.. This is a good study reference on symbol types and application http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/learning_resources/carto/symbol.html 6.. This link is referred to in a number of places and so must have had something useful in it at some stage http://www.maps4u.com/ref/symbology/usgs but no longer exists. Possibly the content exists elsewhere now?? 7.. Installing software such as CorelDraw gives you a wealth of fonts. 8.. My last version of LayMan (http://www.acenet.com.au/~pwaight/layman_whatsnew.htm) addressed 2 shortcomings of standard symbol use in MapInfo, organisation (groups symbols by a classification and allows sorting by font name or class) and speed of use (browsing and picking) whilst editing a map. Phil.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mickey Feldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 7:28 AM Subject: MI-L Where to find symbols as BMP's? > > Hi list, > > I have literally thousands of bmp's for button glyphs, icons, etc, but very > few of them are appropriate symbols for map point data. I'm just looking for > ordinary stuff like schools, fire stations, hotels, etc. My googling for this > brought up that this same question that was asked a few months back, but > apparently the only response pointed to ESRI's TTF symbols. These are OK, but > limited and just black and white. I really want bmp's. > > Surely there must be a collection of these out there somewhere? > > TIA > > -- > Mickey Feldman > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message number: 11045 > >
