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Greetings All,
BLUF: Joint military symbology explorer (http://explorer.milsymb.net/#/home) is a website where you can create, save, and explore military standard symbology. It is currently evolving as the data that it uses grows, but it's still a great asset for those of you looking to understand or create standard military symbols.
The Background:
With the release of MIL-STD-2525D Common Warfighting Symbology (the DOD standard that drives service standards like the Army's ADRP 1-02), comes a new way of graphically representing entities on a map. This new "a-la-carte" symbology may be difficult to understand at first, but the standard's increased agility makes it much easier to create the symbols we need to map.
ESRI is a GIS company that has long supported the DOD, and has created GIS technology used everywhere from FBCB2, CPOF, DCGS-A, and a multitude of other systems. ESRI developed and is maintaining the Joint Military Symbology Markup Language (JMSML), an open-source digitization of MIL-STD-2525D, developed jointly between DOD's Symbology Standards Management Committee and NATO's Joint Symbology Panel.
Here is the JMSML repository link:
https://github.com/Esri/joint-military-symbology-xml
The Joint military symbology explorer is a prime example of how open-source coding can benefit everyone. A researcher at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment created this website as an experiment.
Known issues:
Since the JMSML has trouble depicting Line and Area control measures (it's a question of creating the graphics to render them correctly), that part of the Joint symbology explorer may have some issues.
I hope you all find this helpful, and please let me know if you have any questions. I've also posted this to milSuite, and you can find that link here: https://www.milsuite.mil/book/groups/army-marine-corps-terminology/blog/2015/03/17/the-joint-military-symbology-explorer
Have a great day everyone!
BLUF: Joint military symbology explorer (http://explorer.milsymb.net/#/home) is a website where you can create, save, and explore military standard symbology. It is currently evolving as the data that it uses grows, but it's still a great asset for those of you looking to understand or create standard military symbols.
The Background:
With the release of MIL-STD-2525D Common Warfighting Symbology (the DOD standard that drives service standards like the Army's ADRP 1-02), comes a new way of graphically representing entities on a map. This new "a-la-carte" symbology may be difficult to understand at first, but the standard's increased agility makes it much easier to create the symbols we need to map.
ESRI is a GIS company that has long supported the DOD, and has created GIS technology used everywhere from FBCB2, CPOF, DCGS-A, and a multitude of other systems. ESRI developed and is maintaining the Joint Military Symbology Markup Language (JMSML), an open-source digitization of MIL-STD-2525D, developed jointly between DOD's Symbology Standards Management Committee and NATO's Joint Symbology Panel.
Here is the JMSML repository link:
https://github.com/Esri/joint-military-symbology-xml
The Joint military symbology explorer is a prime example of how open-source coding can benefit everyone. A researcher at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment created this website as an experiment.
Known issues:
Since the JMSML has trouble depicting Line and Area control measures (it's a question of creating the graphics to render them correctly), that part of the Joint symbology explorer may have some issues.
I hope you all find this helpful, and please let me know if you have any questions. I've also posted this to milSuite, and you can find that link here: https://www.milsuite.mil/book/groups/army-marine-corps-terminology/blog/2015/03/17/the-joint-military-symbology-explorer
Have a great day everyone!
Edited 9 y ago
Posted 9 y ago
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Holy cow this is Awesome. I wish I found this when I was at IBOLC. Thanks so much.
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I am glad to see what they have done with capability Sir. Being signal the most difficult thing to explain to Commanders is that we had no way to uniquely identify them on a BFT overlay; now we do. This also opens up the ability to identify Task Force Teams or QRF teams.
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Glad you like it. Interesting side note re: signal units, I was at the meeting where they authorized a change to the standard that allows for modifiers for Joint Network Nodes (JNN), Command Post Nodes (CPN), and Retransmission Sites (RETRNS). Granted you won't see that change for a while, but it's good to know the decision has been made!
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Wow, this is insane. Can’t believe someone was able to create this from how complex this stuff can be!
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