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Old 11-27-2010, 03:45 PM
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It looks like you are using the APP-6 symbol set, these where replaced with the APP-6A and then with MIL-STD-2525B and then MIL-STD-2525C.
Yeah some of the information is a little older. The original reason I made it was to make new counters for GDW's Third World War game. Therefore the standard from ~1989 was the base. I might switch to the "rectangle = friendly" and "diamond = enemy" standard that is in use today but it would be a doubling of the work I have done so far so it is on the back burner.

Since my project has a more military flavor the symbols work well for me, but for I am going to work on some more project specific ones.

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Where can I download the font set you are using on that page?
I was kinda waiting until I tested it in several programs and could write up an instruction sheet (based on the page i linked to), but if you want to call the below a "beta" you are free to use it.

http://games.juhlin.com/font/TOE_Unicode.ttf


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Also for TMP you could add the Homeland Security Emergenct Management Map Symbols as well: http://www.fgdc.gov/HSWG/ref_pages/D...ymbols_ref.htm

They are kind of what Prime Would be looking at from the information coming in from the recon teams from there AO's.
Cool and copyright free

I had been focusing on pre war mapping and had not thought of post recon symbology but that would make a lot of sense to have some available.
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