Re: [emergency] Symbol for CAP

[Matthias Lendholt <matthias.lendholt@gfz-potsdam.de>]

Another very simple but intuitive symbol is used by the Global Disaster 
Alert and Coordination System (gdacs.org):

http://www.gdacs.org/images/cap.gif

Matthias


Am 10.06.2011 22:15, schrieb Steve Hakusa:
> I agree with Matthias that most of the time, the communication protocol
> should not have to surface in the iconography.
>
> When distinguishing between multiple types of feeds is necessary, the
> capsule style is nice, eg
> http://www.fngtps.com/files/2/2006/05/060530_xml_icons-1.gif  It also
> allows room to specify RSS vs Atom vs EDXL-DE if that really became
> necessary.
>
> If 32x32 is required, then this makes sense.  Another similar example on
> the web:
> http://www.theredelephant.org/html/images/rss_xml_atom_feeds_news_icon.jpg
>
> Steve
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Rob Torchon <rtorchon@yahoo.com
> <mailto:rtorchon@yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     These look very good.
>
>     I agree with your statement about the map icons. There are numerous map
>     symbol tables already all indicating event or incident type.
>
>     I like your first symbol. It's very clean and would scale well. The
>     second
>     has the "!" element that is used in some map symbols already.
>
>     Rob
>
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Matthias Lendholt [mailto:matthias.lendholt@gfz-potsdam.de
>     <mailto:matthias.lendholt@gfz-potsdam.de>]
>     Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 2:26 AM
>     To: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org
>     <mailto:emergency@lists.oasis-open.org>
>     Subject: Re: [emergency] Symbol for CAP
>
>     Am 09.06.2011 17:56, schrieb Elysa Jones:
>      > Friends,
>      >
>      > As I presented after the CAP workshop and again mentioned in the
>     EM-TC
>      > meeting this week, there is a need of a symbol for CAP to be used on
>      > maps as well as for web service CAP feeds. Just this past week Simon
>      > Elliot of EUMETSAT asked if we had made any progress on this action.
>      > Does anyone of our TC members with to make a contribution of symbols
>      > as requested for CAP? If so or if you have any input on this topic,
>      > please respond.
>
>     Elysa,
>
>     I think we must differentiate between usage in maps and usage in feeds.
>     In most map based applications the symbol in the map will indicate
>     the event
>     (e.g. tsunami, bush fire, etc.) and not the type of underlying
>     communication
>     protocol.
>
>     However, for CAP RSS feeds a unified symbol is a very good idea. The RSS
>     icon is well-known, therefore I propse to create a CAP feed icon
>     which is
>     similar an which re-uses elements of the RSS icon.
>
>     Please find attached two drafts just to give an impression.
>
>     Whichever icon will be selected, it must be scalable to 32x32 pixel
>     without
>     getting illegible.
>
>     Regards,
>     Matthias
>
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