<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
        {font-family:Wingdings;
        panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}
@font-face
        {font-family:Wingdings;
        panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}
@font-face
        {font-family:Calibri;
        panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
        {font-family:Tahoma;
        panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
        {margin:0in;
        margin-bottom:.0001pt;
        font-size:12.0pt;
        font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
        {mso-style-priority:99;
        color:blue;
        text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
        {mso-style-priority:99;
        color:purple;
        text-decoration:underline;}
p
        {mso-style-priority:99;
        mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
        margin-right:0in;
        mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
        margin-left:0in;
        font-size:12.0pt;
        font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}
p.MsoListParagraph, li.MsoListParagraph, div.MsoListParagraph
        {mso-style-priority:34;
        margin-top:0in;
        margin-right:0in;
        margin-bottom:0in;
        margin-left:.5in;
        margin-bottom:.0001pt;
        font-size:12.0pt;
        font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}
span.EmailStyle18
        {mso-style-type:personal-reply;
        font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
        color:#1F497D;}
.MsoChpDefault
        {mso-style-type:export-only;
        font-size:10.0pt;}
@page WordSection1
        {size:8.5in 11.0in;
        margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
        {page:WordSection1;}
/* List Definitions */
@list l0
        {mso-list-id:345137884;
        mso-list-type:hybrid;
        mso-list-template-ids:461244848 -1385775380 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693;}
@list l0:level1
        {mso-level-start-at:410;
        mso-level-number-format:bullet;
        mso-level-text:\F0D8;
        mso-level-tab-stop:none;
        mso-level-number-position:left;
        text-indent:-.25in;
        font-family:Wingdings;
        mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;
        mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";}
@list l0:level2
        {mso-level-number-format:bullet;
        mso-level-text:o;
        mso-level-tab-stop:none;
        mso-level-number-position:left;
        text-indent:-.25in;
        font-family:"Courier New";}
@list l0:level3
        {mso-level-number-format:bullet;
        mso-level-text:\F0A7;
        mso-level-tab-stop:none;
        mso-level-number-position:left;
        text-indent:-.25in;
        font-family:Wingdings;}
@list l0:level4
        {mso-level-number-format:bullet;
        mso-level-text:\F0B7;
        mso-level-tab-stop:none;
        mso-level-number-position:left;
        text-indent:-.25in;
        font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level5
        {mso-level-number-format:bullet;
        mso-level-text:o;
        mso-level-tab-stop:none;
        mso-level-number-position:left;
        text-indent:-.25in;
        font-family:"Courier New";}
@list l0:level6
        {mso-level-number-format:bullet;
        mso-level-text:\F0A7;
        mso-level-tab-stop:none;
        mso-level-number-position:left;
        text-indent:-.25in;
        font-family:Wingdings;}
@list l0:level7
        {mso-level-number-format:bullet;
        mso-level-text:\F0B7;
        mso-level-tab-stop:none;
        mso-level-number-position:left;
        text-indent:-.25in;
        font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level8
        {mso-level-number-format:bullet;
        mso-level-text:o;
        mso-level-tab-stop:none;
        mso-level-number-position:left;
        text-indent:-.25in;
        font-family:"Courier New";}
@list l0:level9
        {mso-level-number-format:bullet;
        mso-level-text:\F0A7;
        mso-level-tab-stop:none;
        mso-level-number-position:left;
        text-indent:-.25in;
        font-family:Wingdings;}
ol
        {margin-bottom:0in;}
ul
        {margin-bottom:0in;}
--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">(You will hear Hessu scream all the way across the Atlantic)…</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Though actually, these are not changes, but just mapping of Opentrack to mostly existing or future APRS symbols)…</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">On Behalf Of </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Andrew P.<br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> I went through the symbol codes defined by OpenTRAC, <span style="color:#1f497d"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">and found all the symbol meanings that didn't correspond <span style="color:#1f497d"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">to existing APRS symbol codes<span style="color:#1f497d">: [120 others did and are not listed below]</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">SO then I took his remainder (below) and added additional mapping.  See additions below.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The overlays are included in the existing <a href="http://aprs.org/symbols/symbols-new.txt">http://aprs.org/symbols/symbols-new.txt</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>
1.2.3     Unmanned Space Debris<span style="color:#1f497d"> = use existing Wreck</span><br>2.2.1.1     Experimental Fixed Wing Air<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Aircaraft X overlay</span><br>2.2.1.4     Turboprop Airplane<span style="color:#1f497d"> = aircraft P overlay</span><br>
3.1.2     Government Facility<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Shelter overlay G</span><br>3.1.3     Medical Facility<span style="color:#1f497d"> = use existing Hospital</span><br>3.1.3.2     Clinic<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Shelter overlay C</span><br>
3.1.3.3     Triage Facility<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Shelter overlay T</span><br>3.1.3.6     Morgue<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Shelter overlay M</span><br>3.1.4     Emergency Services<span style="color:#1f497d">  use CD triangle</span><br>
3.1.4.2     Decontamination<span style="color:#1f497d"> use CD Triangle overlay D</span><br>3.1.5.1     Power<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Powerplant overlay E</span><br>3.1.7.2     Apartment<br>3.1.7.3     Condo<br>3.1.13.1     Park<span style="color:#1f497d"> = existing park symbol(alternate portable)</span><br>
3.1.14.1.1     Airport<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Depot overlay A</span><br>3.1.14.1.2     Ultralight Flight Area<br>3.1.14.1.4     Helipad<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Depot overlay H</span><br>3.1.14.2     Ground Transport<br>
3.1.14.2.1     Train Station<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Depot overlay R</span><br>3.1.14.2.2     Bus Station<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Depot overlay B</span><br>3.1.14.2.3     Light Rail<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Depot overlay L</span><br>
3.1.14.3     Sea Transport<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Depot overlay S</span><br>3.1.14.3.1     Port<span style="color:#1f497d"> use Depot</span><br>3.1.14.3.2     Ferry Landing<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Depot overlay F</span><br>
3.2.1     Vehicle<span style="color:#1f497d"> use alternate car</span><br>3.2.1.1     Passenger Vehicle<span style="color:#1f497d"> = existing car</span><br>3.2.1.2     Commercial Vehicle<span style="color:#1f497d"> = existing Van or Truck</span><br>
3.2.1.3     Rail Vehicle<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Train</span><br>3.2.1.4     Snow Vehicle<br>3.2.1.4.2     Snow Plow<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Truck overlay P</span><br>3.2.1.5     Construction Vehicle<br>3.2.1.5.1     Bulldozer<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Truck overlay B</span><br>
3.2.1.5.2     Backhoe<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Truck overlay B or use existing workzone symbol (that looked like one)</span><br>3.2.1.5.3     Loader<br>3.2.1.6     Public Safety Vehicle<span style="color:#1f497d"> use Firetruck or Police symbol</span><br>
3.2.2     Emergency Equipment<br>3.2.2.1     Generator<span style="color:#1f497d"> = powerplant (no overlay)</span><br>3.2.2.1.1     Portable Generator<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Powerplant overlay P</span><br>3.2.2.1.2     Towed Generator<span style="color:#1f497d"> = use same as portable</span><br>
3.2.2.1.3     Fixed Generator<span style="color:#1f497d"> same as Generator</span><br>4.1.3     Support Vessel<br>4.1.3.1     Tugboat<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Ships overlay T</span><br>4.1.3.1.1     Harbor Tug<span style="color:#1f497d"> = same as tug</span><br>
4.1.3.1.2     Ocean Tug<span style="color:#1f497d"> = same as tug</span><br>4.1.3.2     Pilot Boat<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Ships overlay P</span><br>4.1.5.5     PWC<br>4.1.5.6     Skiff<br>4.1.5.8     DaySail<span style="color:#1f497d"> = use existing Yacht(has always meant sail)</span><br>
4.1.5.10     Tall Ship<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Ship overlay Y</span><br>4.2.1     Floating Structure<br>4.2.1.1     Oil Rig<br>4.2.1.2     Dry Dock<br>4.2.1.3     Bridge<br>4.2.2     Fixed Structure<br>4.2.2.1     Oil Rig<span style="color:#1f497d"> = ships overlay O</span><br>
4.2.2.2     Dry Dock<br>4.2.2.3     Anchor Area<br>4.2.2.4     Mooring<br>4.2.2.5     Mooring Area<br>4.2.2.6     Bridge<br>4.2.2.6.1     Fixed Bridge<br>4.2.2.6.2     Lift/Swing Bridge<br>5.1.1     Subsurface Vehicle<span style="color:#1f497d"> = ships overlay U</span><br>
5.1.1.1     ROV<span style="color:#1f497d"> = same</span><br>5.1.1.2     Submersible<span style="color:#1f497d"> = same</span><br>5.2.1     Dive Site<span style="color:#1f497d"> </span><br>5.2.2     Channel<br>6.1.1     Ham Radio Contest<br>
6.1.1.1     Field Day<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Portable overlay F</span><br>6.1.2     Swap Meet<span style="color:#1f497d"> (= use eyeball (Event))</span><br>6.1.3     Convention<span style="color:#1f497d"> (= use eyeball (event))</span><br>
6.2.1     Geocache<br>6.3.1     Parade<span style="color:#1f497d"> (= use eyeball (event))</span><br>6.3.1.1     Parade Staging Area<br>6.3.1.2     Parade Review Stand<br>6.5.1     SAR Victim<br>6.5.2     SAR Tracks<br>6.5.3     SAR Sign<br>
6.5.4     SAR Evidence<br>6.5.6     Shipwreck<span style="color:#1f497d"> = ship overlay 6 (deep -6)</span><br>6.5.7     SAR Man Overboard<span style="color:#1f497d"> = use existing CoastGuard which looks like a lifering</span><br>
6.5.8     ELT/EPIRB Hit<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Emergency overlay E</span><br>6.6.4     Landslide/Mudslide<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Flooding Overlay M</span><br>6.6.5     Avalanche<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Flooding overlay A</span><br>
6.6.6     Volcanic Eruption<span style="color:#1f497d"> = Emergency overlay V</span><br>7.1.1.1     Low Pressure Center<br>7.1.1.2     High Pressure Center<br>7.1.1.3.1     Cold Front<br>7.1.1.3.1.1     Upper Cold Front<br>
7.1.1.3.2     Warm Front<br>7.1.1.3.2.1     Upper Warm Front<br>7.1.1.3.3     Occluded Front<br>7.1.1.3.4     Stationary Front<br>7.1.1.4.1     Trough Line<br>7.1.1.4.2     Ridge Line<br>7.1.1.4.3     Squall Line<br>7.1.2.1     Light Turbulence<br>
7.1.2.2     Medium Turbulence<br>7.1.2.3     Severe Turbulence<br>7.1.2.4     Extreme Turbulence<br>7.1.3.1     Clear Icing<br>7.1.3.1.1     Light Clear Icing<br>7.1.3.1.2     Moderate Clear Icing<br>7.1.3.1.3     Severe Clear Icing<br>
7.1.3.2     Rime Icing<br>7.1.3.2.1     Light Rime Icing<br>7.1.3.2.2     Moderate Rime Icing<br>7.1.3.2.3     Severe Rime Icing<br>7.1.3.3     Mixed Icing<br>7.1.3.3.1     Light Mixed Icing<br>7.1.3.3.2     Moderate Mixed Icing<br>
7.1.3.3.3     Severe Mixed Icing<br>7.1.4     Wind Barb<br>7.1.4.1     Jet Stream<br>7.1.5.1     Instrument Ceiling<br>7.1.5.2     Visual Ceiling<br>7.1.7.4     Ice Pellets<br>7.1.7.5     Ice Crystals<br>7.1.9.3     Dust/Sand Storm<br>
7.1.9.4     Dust Devil<br><br>It was a very subjective process (for example, there are over a dozen airplane codes in OpenTrac which I mapped into either the APRS small airplane icon or the large airplane icon).<br><br>So, are any of these worth adding in some of the "holes" in the APRS symbol tables?<br>
<br>Andrew Pavlin, KA2DDO</span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:23:07 +0300<br>> From: <a href="mailto:hessu@hes.iki.fi">hessu@hes.iki.fi</a><br>
> To: <a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a><br>> Subject: Re: [aprssig] New icon images<br>> <br>> On Thu, 21 Aug 2014, andrewemt wrote:<br>> <br>> > Greetings, all.<br>> > <br>
> > I was just reading some archives of the mailing list, and came upon the discussion last year of defining new APRS<br>> > symbol code meanings and creating new symbol icon images.<br>> > <br>> > Has any progress been made on that?<br>
> <br>> I've mostly finished the work on a new symbol set. I'll release it first <br>> on <a href="http://aprs.fi">aprs.fi</a> (pretty soon), and then open-source the data. The new ones look <br>> pretty good on modern displays, even when rotated as bitmaps:<br>
> <br>> <a href="https://twitter.com/aprsfi/status/502348470465097728">https://twitter.com/aprsfi/status/502348470465097728</a><br>> <br>> <br>> That effort, however, only targeted the old symbol set, and none of the <br>
> new ones, mostly because drawing a lot of additional symbols takes a lot <br>> of additional time, and it took a lot of time to just do the old ones <br>> (some 30-50 minutes per symbol! and could easily use more to make them <br>
> better). I'm not quite sure it makes sense to put a lot of effort in a <br>> huge granularity of different symbol graphics like this:<br>> <br>> HOUSE: #-<br>> /- = House<br>> \- = (was HF)<br>> 5- = 50 Hz mains power<br>
> 6- = 60 Hz mains power<br>> <br>> ... are there any areas where one house has 50 Hz and the next house <br>> suddenly has 60 Hz? What is the relevancy of this?<br>> <br>> B- = Backup Battery Power<br>> C- = Club, as in Ham club<br>
> E- = Emergency power<br>> G- = Geothermal<br>> H- = Hydro powered<br>> O- = Operator Present<br>> S- = Solar Powered<br>> W- = Wind powered<br>> <br>> ... huh? 9 more houses to draw, while somehow signaling which sort of <br>
> power source each house has? Will there also be a separate for a <br>> Hydro-powered house which has an operator present, VHF yagi antenna and a <br>> dog?<br>> <br>> I'd suggest this sort of granularity and detail could go to the free-form <br>
> comment text. We'll need to hire a full-time symbol graphic artist if we <br>> go to details like this. :)<br>> <br>> The "generalize old symbols" direction would be more useful. Like when the <br>
> current symbolsX.txt redefines \h, which used to be 'ham store', as just <br>> 'store', which is more widely useful.<br>> <br>> - Hessu<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>
> aprssig mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a><br>> <a href="http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig">http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig</a></span></p></div></div>
</body></html>