Python military symbols
This is a lightweight Python module, including a command-line script, to generate NATO APP-6(D) compliant military symbol icons in SVG format. These SVGs can be generated from inputs formatted as NATO SIDCs (Symbol identification codes) or as natural-language names for symbols, i.e. "friendly infantry platoon" or "enemy mortar section." Features supported include:
- Headquarters, task force, mobility, and echelon indicators
- Automatic checking of modifier and entity types for congruence
- Symbol sets to indicate land units and installations, air, space, sea surface, subsurface, signals intelligence, and cyber units, tracks, and activities
- Status indicators in both standard and alternate forms
- Construction of SVGs in light, medium, dark, and unfilled styles
Control measure graphics are not yet implemented.
Available as a Python package.
Usage
Command line usage examples:
# Create a set of symbols by name, using variant symbols if available, in the current directory
military_symbol --use-variants --by-name -o . "Friendly artillery company" "Destroyed Enemy PSYOP section"
# Create a single symbol at the designated path by name
military_symbol -o platoon.svg -n "Friendly infantry platoon"
# Print a set of symbols by name, in unfilled style, to STDOUT
military_symbol -s unfilled -n "Friendly infantry platoon" "Enemy anti-air battery"
# Create the same set of symbols as above, but by SIDC
military_symbol -o . -n 10031000141211000000 10041000141211000000Python module usage:
import os
import military_symbol
if __name__ == '__main__':
# Print symbol generated from a name to STDOUT
print(military_symbol.get_symbol_svg_string_from_name("enemy infantry platoon"))
# Add a symbol template and write it to a file adjacent to this script
example_template_directory = os.path.dirname(__file__)
military_symbol.add_symbol_template_set(os.path.join(example_template_directory, 'example_template.json'))
military_symbol.write_symbol_svg_string_from_name("T-82", out_filepath=os.path.join(example_template_directory,
'T-82.svg'), auto_name=False)
shapes = [
'friendly infantry',
'friendly cavalry',
'friendly artillery'
]
for shape in shapes:
military_symbol.write_symbol_svg_string_from_name(shape, out_filepath=example_template_directory)
# Generate a list of symbols from names and write them as SVG files in specific
# styles, named according to a user-defined pattern and using variant symbols where available
examples = [
('Enemy armor company', 'light'),
("Dummy damaged neutral hospital", 'medium'),
("Friendly fighter", 'dark'),
("Destroyed neutral artillery task force headquarters", 'unfilled'),
("Suspected CBRN section", 'light')
]
for example_name, example_style in examples:
example_symbol: src.military_symbol.individual_symbol.MilitarySymbol = military_symbol.get_symbol_class_from_name(example_name)
print('Exporting symbol "{}"'.format(example_symbol.get_name()))
output_filename = '{} ({}).svg'.format(example_symbol.get_sidc(), example_style)
with open(output_filename, 'w') as output_file:
output_file.write(example_symbol.get_svg(style=example_style, pixel_padding=4, use_variants=True))License
This project is licensed under the MIT license.
