{"id":3966,"date":"2011-12-21T14:55:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T19:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3966"},"modified":"2011-12-28T11:01:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T16:01:25","slug":"vector-symbols-for-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/21\/vector-symbols-for-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Vector Symbols for Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnr.state.mn.us\/mis\/gis\/tools\/arcview\/extensions\/RecSym\/recsym.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/images\/mn_dnr_symbols_example.png\" height=247 width=257 border=0 title=\"Minnesota DNR Recreation Symbols Example\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever been drawing a map and found yourself needing vector copies of symbols? Well, thanks to the great state of Minnesota there is a font containing most of these symbols freely available. On the state&#8217;s page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnr.state.mn.us\/mis\/gis\/tools\/arcview\/extensions\/RecSym\/recsym.html\">Recreation Symbols Extension for ArcView<\/a> one can download <tt><a href=\"http:\/\/files.dnr.state.mn.us\/aboutdnr\/bureaus\/mis\/gis\/tools\/arcview\/extensions\/recsym\/recreate.ttf\">recreate.ttf<\/a><\/tt>, a 126-character <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TrueType\">TrueType<\/a> font containing indicators for everything from XC ski trail difficulty to lighthouse locations and from winter camping sites to RV dump locations.<\/p>\n<p>To make using this font easier I&#8217;ve created a spreadsheet-based key listing each of the symbols next to their corresponding Unicode character. This can be found here: <tt><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/files\/Minnesota%20DNR%20Recreation%20Symbol%20True%20Type%20Font%20Key.xlsx\">Minnesota DNR Recreation Symbol True Type Font Key.xlsx<\/a><\/tt><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a few other nifty things that Minnesota has provided to the general GIS community, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnr.state.mn.us\/mis\/gis\/tools\/arcview\/extensions\/roadsym\/roadsym.html\">Road Symbols<\/a>. The rest can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnr.state.mn.us\/mis\/gis\/tools\/arcview\/extensions.html\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/hfc\/carto\/map-symbols.htm\">Here<\/a> is another set of symbols provided by the National Park Service (NPS). These are much more up to date and provided as both PDF and .AI files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever been drawing a map and found yourself needing vector copies of symbols? Well, thanks to the great state of Minnesota there is a font containing most of these symbols freely available. On the state&#8217;s page Recreation Symbols Extension for ArcView one can download recreate.ttf, a 126-character TrueType font containing indicators for everything from XC\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-making-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3966"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3984,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966\/revisions\/3984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}