Are there any standard, publicly available symbol sets for crime mapping? What are their intended applications and their strengths and weaknesses?
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Are there any standard, publicly available symbol sets for crime mapping? What are their intended applications and their strengths and weaknesses?
Best Answer
Another publicly available symbology set for crime mapping applications is the Crime Mapping Symbology (CMS).
http://emsymbology.org/Police_CAD-RMS/index.html
Intended Applications
The Crime Mapping Symbology (CMS) was created to be used in a web mapping environment.
The use of PNGs also allows for many desktop mapping applications to import the symbols for use in a non web environment.
Strengths
The symbol set has been created in PNG format to allow for a broad range of software platforms.
The symbols are intended to utilize simple intuitive pictograms that require little training to become familiar with their representations.
The symbols are designed to be highly visible against a wide range of vector and raster based backgrounds.
Weaknesses