[OSGeo-Discuss] Free licensed alternative to ESRI map fonts

[Jody Garnett]

This discussion starts to get into the value, it is a lot of work to gather
up these original or alternate sources ... both for end users migrating to
open source, and for OSGeo projects to do on their own.

I think this would be a great group project.

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 3:44 AM Brad Hards <bradh at frogmouth.net> wrote:

> I have no idea what is in the map fonts (or even what an ESRI map font
> is), but if you're looking for the symbology for DNC and VMAP, (which sound
> vaguely like: ESRI NIMA DNC LN, ESRI NIMA DNC PT, ESRI NIMA VMAP1&2 LN,
> ESRI NIMA VMAP1&2 PT) its probably based on some variant of the NGA GeoSym
> stuff - MIL-HDBK-857A and MIL-DTL-89045/A
>
> If you're prepared to deal with converting CGM to whatever that font thing
> is, you can download the definitions from the NGA GWG Portrayal Working
> Group at https://gwg.nga.mil/pfg_documents.php (expect a cert warning)
>
> The ESRI Mil2525C Modifiers and some of those MilSym / MilMod things might
> be MIL-STD-2525 (aka STANAG APP-6) symbology. Not usually treated as a font
> though....
>
> Brad
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of Nyall Dawson
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 May 2020 3:46 PM
> To: Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
> Cc: OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Free licensed alternative to ESRI map fonts
>
> On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 01:13, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
> wrote:
>
> > for my understanding, and hopefully help others, I assume the issue is
> that you have a style definition where there are tuples of
> (font_identifier, symbol_identifier_in_the_font) to define the styling of
> layers with point geometries, right ?
>
> Partially, but the "bigger picture" is that there's just no alternative
> freely available version of many of these symbol graphics themselves.
> That's the blocker that I've encountered.
>
> > If that's only the former, then assuming there would be N open fonts
> already covering the whole set of ESRI symbology fonts (unlikely), one
> could possibly create a mapping between each tuple of (ESRI_font_id,
> ESRI_symbol_id) to (OPEN_font_id, OPEN_symbol_id). If the later, then you
> need a complete replacement for each proprietary font.
>
> It's the later.
>
> > How many symbols / fonts are we discussing about ?
>
> There's about 73 fonts total (see list below, may not be complete), which
> average about 100 icons apiece.
>
> ESRI AMFM Electric
> ESRI AMFM Gas
> ESRI AMFM Sewer
> ESRI AMFM Water
> ESRI ArcPad
> ESRI Arrowhead
> ESRI Business
> ESRI Cartography
> ESRI Caves 1
> ESRI Caves 2
> ESRI Caves 3
> ESRI Climate & Precipitation
> ESRI Commodities
> ESRI Conservation
> ESRI Crime Analysis
> ESRI Default Marker
> ESRI Dimensioning
> ESRI Elements
> ESRI Enviro Hazard Analysis
> ESRI Enviro Hazard Incident
> ESRI Enviro Hazard Sites
> ESRI Environmental & Icons
> ESRI ERS Infrastructures S1
> ESRI ERS Operations S1
> ESRI Fire Incident NFPA
> ESRI Geology AGSO 1
> ESRI Geology
> ESRI Geology USGS 95-525
> ESRI Geometric Symbols
> ESRI Hazardous Materials
> ESRI Hydrants
> ESRI IGL Font16
> ESRI IGL Font20
> ESRI IGL Font21
> ESRI IGL Font22
> ESRI IGL Font23
> ESRI IGL Font24
> ESRI IGL Font25
> ESRI Meteorological 01
> ESRI Mil2525C Modifiers
> ESRI MilMod 01
> ESRI MilMod 02
> ESRI MilRed 01
> ESRI MilSym 01
> ESRI MilSym 02
> ESRI MilSym 03
> ESRI MilSym 04
> ESRI MilSym 05
> ESRI NIMA City Graphic LN
> ESRI NIMA City Graphic PT
> ESRI NIMA DNC LN
> ESRI NIMA DNC PT
> ESRI NIMA VMAP1&2 LN
> ESRI NIMA VMAP1&2 PT
> ESRI North
> ESRI Oil, Gas, & Water
> ESRI Ordnance Survey
> ESRI Pipeline US 1
> ESRI Public1
> ESRI SDS 1.95 1
> ESRI SDS 1.95 2
> ESRI SDS 2.00 1
> ESRI SDS 2.00 2
> ESRI Shields
> ESRI Surveyor
> ESRI Telecom
> ESRI Transportation & Civic
> ESRI US Forestry 1
> ESRI US Forestry 2
> ESRI US MUTCD 1
> ESRI US MUTCD 2
> ESRI US MUTCD 3
> ESRI Weather
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