DownloadsDocuments | SymbologyImportant NoteThis symbols set is meant for European usage and is a work in progress. This is the second version and will evolve. It is not a standard. If you have any question, suggestion or resquest, please contact us. Legal useThis research is partially supported by the INDIGO project, funded by the European Commission through the Security Research program under FP7. Any information/material contained herein is a paro of the EU project work, it is not subject to copyright protection, and may be published/disseminated without restriction(s). BackgroundWithin the scope of the INDIGO project, an initial global survey reveals a plethora of symbols and symbol schemes across countries but extremely few standardized sets. There are exceptions, namely the emergency management symbology used in the United States, developed by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) within their Homeland Security Working Group (FGDC HSWG), and the somewhat less governed symbology set for use in Australia and New Zealand, the Australasian All-Hazards Symbology, developed by the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) and the Victoria-based company Spatial Vision. There are also serious initiatives and dialogues for standardisation which are currently underway, for example within the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (of UNESCO). We propose a European emergency symbology reference for 2D/3D maps. This will fill an important gap by offering a common visual reference that can be used across Europe to facilitate the immediate understanding of incidents, thus improving decision making across organisational boundaries. The approachA state of the art has been achieved within the scope of the INDIGO project, details and download link can be found below:
Moreover, a survey has been made where more than 40 worldwide crisis managers, crisis trainers and operationals responded. Analysis of their answers have conducted us to the following principles:
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