Unit Symbol Generator - www.spatialillusions.com (2024)

Reality / Exercise / Simulation

Affiliation

Symbol set

Main Icon

First Icon Modifier

Second Icon Modifier

Echelon / Mobility

Headquarters / Taskforce / Dummy

Special Headquarters

A text modifier for units; indicator is contained inside the frame; contains the name of the special C2 Headquarters.

Unit Name, Unique Designation

A text amplifier for units, equipment and installations that uniquely identifies a particular symbol or track number. Identifies acquisitions number when used with SIGINT symbology.
If set, this be displayed in your favorites list and orbat.

Additional Information

A text amplifier for units, equipment and installations; content is implementation specific.
If set, this be displayed in your favorites list and orbat.

Show text fields around your symbol

Toggle this to show texts around your symbol, and to show all additional text inputs that are avialable.

Altitude / Depth

A text amplifier for units, equipment and installations, that displays either altitude, flight level, depth for submerged objects; or height of equipment or structures on the ground.

Combat Effectiveness

A text amplifier for units and installations that indicates unit effectiveness or installation capability.

Common Identifier

Example: “Hawk” for Hawk SAM system.

Date Time Group

An alphanumeric designator for displaying a date-time group (DDHHMMSSZMONYYYY) or “O/O” for on order. The date-time group is composed of a group of six numeric digits with a time zone suffix and the standardized three-letter abbreviation for the month followed by four digits representing the year. The first pair of digits represents the day; the second pair, the hour; the third pair, the minutes. For automated systems, two digits may be added before the time zone suffix and after the minutes to designate seconds.

Direction

A graphic amplifier for units and equipment that identifies the direction of movement or intended movement of an object.

Engagement Bar Type

Engagement Bar Text

The engagement amplifier shall be arranged as follows: A:BBB-CC, where A (1 character) denotes a local versus remote engagement, BBB (up to 3 characters) denotes engagement state and CC (up to 2 characters) denotes weapon deployment/asset control.
A A remote engagement is defined as an engagement assigned outside of ownship control. A local engagement is defined as an engagement assigned to ownship. Local engagements shall have no letter assignment in the A:BBB-CC engagement bar; whereas, remote engagements shall be denoted as “R” in the engagement bar. In the case of multiple engagements, there may be a mixture of both local and remote engagements. In such cases, “B” shall be denoted to indicate both local and remote engagements.
BBB Typical engagement stages to depict include assign/cover, engage and missile(s) in flight. Other engagement events such as hold fire, cease fire, cease engage, break engagement, terminate engagement, management by exception, management by exception less than threshold and others may be depicted in the engagement amplifier. In the case of multiple engagements where no one specific engagement is highlighted, “MLT” may be used to indicate multiple engagements.

ENGAGEMENT STAGE	CODE
ASSIGN/COVER	ASN
ENGAGE	ENG
MISSILE IN FLIGHT	MIF
CEASE FIRE	CF
CEASE ENGAGE	CE
HOLD FIRE	HF
TERMINATE ENGAGEMENT	TE
BREAK ENGAGEMENT	BE
MANAGEMENT BY EXCEPTION (MBE)	MBE
MBE LESS THAN THRESHOLD	M<T
MULTIPLE ENGAGEMENTS	MLT

CC Either deployed weapons such as missiles, guns and torpedoes or controlled assets such as unmanned systems, interceptor aircraft and attack aircraft may have representation in the engagement bar. In the case where multiple engagements are represented within a single engagement amplifier bar, the number of engagements starting from “02” shall be used in the CC field.

WEAPON/ASSET	CODE
MISSILE	M
BALLISTIC MISSILE	BM
CRUISE MISSILE	CM
GUN	GN
TORPEDO	T
ATTACK AIRCRAFT	A
COMBAT AIR PATROL (DEFENSIVE COUNTER AIR)	C
DEFENSIVE COUNTER AIR (COMBAT AIR PATROL)	D
UNDERSEA WARFARE (USW)/ANTISUBMARINE WARFARE (ASW)ENGAGEMENT	UW
MINE WARFARE (MIW) ENGAGEMENT	MW
SURFACE WARFARE (SUW) ENGAGEMENT	SW
ELECTRONIC ATTACK	EA
ELECTRONIC DEFENSE	ED
UNMANNED VEHICLE	UV
CLOSE-IN WEAPON SYSTEM	CW
LAMPS	L3
VERTICAL LAUNCH ASROC	VA
NUMBER OF ENGAGEMENTS	## (02-99)

Equipment Teardown Time

Equipment teardown time in minutes.

Evaluation Rating

A text amplifier for units, equipment and installations that consists of a one-letter reliability rating and a one-number credibility rating.

Reliability Ratings	Credibility Ratings
A - completely reliable B - usually reliable C - fairly reliable D - not usually reliable E - unreliable F - reliability cannot be judged	1 - confirmed by other sources 2 - probably true 3 - possibly true 4 - doubtfully true 5 - improbable 6 - truth cannot be judged

Guarded Unit

During ballistic missile defense, some tracks are designated as guarded by a particular unit. Only displayed on Sea surface.

Higher formation (Commanding unit)

A text amplifier for units that indicates number or title of higher echelon command (corps are designated by Roman numerals).

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Licenses for Ukrainian defence are free

Please contact mans.beckman@spatialillusions.com for further information.

Unit Symbol Generator v.1.5

Performance improvement for working with scenarios with several hundreds of units
Possible to set a range radius on symbols that will be displayed in the map
Map will automatically be connected to on a server
Added all control measure points
Possible to draw Circle Sectors
Possible to draw Search Area Graphics
Support for opeing KMZ files from Ukraine Control Map
Various bug fixes and improvements

Unit Symbol Generator v.1.4

Added possibility to add flags to represent countries on units
Added scalebar to the map view
Added possibility to draw rectangles
Added possibility to change map and map style without reloading
Added possiblity to move the centerpoint of circles to a specified coordinate
Removed the use of cookies if the browser prevents them in any way
Various bug fixes and improvements

Unit Symbol Generator v.1.3

Moved the draw tools to a new menu
Added possiblity to draw circles on the map
Added length information when drawing lines
Fixed a bug where draw tools did not show on first start
Fixed a bug where arrows got the wrong width in KMZ export

Unit Symbol Generator v.1.2

Added possiblity to draw arrows on the map
Added possibility to change vector map style
Minor bugfixes and improvements

Unit Symbol Generator v.1.1

Added the possiblity to draw points/lines/polygons on the map
Updated all dependencies
Minor bugfixes and improvements

Unit Symbol Generator v.1.0

Initial release, all updates before v1.1 are classified as v1.0

Contact

Måns Beckman
Email: mans.beckman@spatialillusions.com

External code - milsymbol , mil-std-2525 , and stanag-app6

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The Unit Symbol Generator combines MIL-STD-2525D and NATO STANAG APP-6 D. By combining the two standards you get a quick way to access all symbols for your work as a battle staff officer.

Since the symbols are based on MIL-STD-2525D, all the generated symbols also are compatible with US ARMY FM 1-02.2 Military Symbology.

Under the development we have been in contact with NATO JSP (Joint Symbology Panel) and DISA SSMC (Standard Symbology Management Committee) and they expressed their appreciation of our work. The underlaying library for generating military symbols, milsymbol, has been developed by the same team, and is widely used in military systems around the world, almost making it a standard in itself.

Sample symbol generated with the Unit Symbol Generator

The Unit Symbol Generator provides an easy to use graphical user interface to create unit symbols. You can either navigate the Unit Symbol Generator user interface using a mouse, or with the keyboard.

If you are using the keyboard you can use tab to step between menus, and arrow keys to move between different options in that menu. Once a menu is expanded you can also type to search, so typing “inf” will take you directly to the “infantry” option. You can of course also combine navigation with keyboard and mouse.

Save to favorites

This will save the current symbol to your "favorites list”. Symbols saved to the favorites list will be stored locally in the web browser, so that they are available the next time you open the symbol generator.
If you don’t want to store anything in your web browser, simply don’t add any symbols to your favorites, or remove all symbols from the list when you end your session.

Download image

This will download the current symbol to your computer as either a PNG or a SVG image. The downloaded symbol will be named SIDC - UNITNAME - ICON NAME - ECHELON.FILEEXTENSION.

If you simply want to copy the current symbol into a document, you should be able to click on the symbol and select copy image, and then paste it into your document simply right.

Favorites list

Symbols you have added to your favorites list can be used as templates for new symbols by simply clicking on them. This will configure the Unit Symbol Generator with the same properties as the symbol you clicked on. If you have updated a symbol that you selected from your favorites list and want to replace the old one, simply delete the old one from the favorites list and add the new one.

Reorder list

It is possible to reorder the symbols you have in your favorites list by simply dragging the symbol up and down the list.

Export/Import list

Under settings, the cogwheel in the lower left corner, you can save your favorites list to a local file and import an existing local file as your favorites. This makes it easy to move your work between computers, or to share it with others.

In the same place you can also easily remove all symbols from your list if you want to make sure that nothing is saved in the browser local storage.

Sample orbat generated with the Orbat Builder

With the orbat builder you can simply create organization diagrams for presentations and other publications. It offers an easy way to combine units generated with the Unit Symbol Generator into beautiful diagrams and automatically optimizes the layout.

Building an Orbat

Drag and drop symbols from your favorites list, or the main current icon, to one of the new positions that automatically displays when you start dragging a symbol.

You can also drag and drop a unit on an existing unit to replace or update that unit.

If you click on a unit in the orbat, it will be set as the current unit in the unit generator. You can then simply click on the main icon in the top left of the screen to swich to the unit generator, and there edit all properties of the unit. Finally, simply switch back to the orbat view, and drag the main unit to replace the unit you want to update.

Example of information that a unit will display in the orbat
Sample orbat with both present and planned units
Sample of how the orbat looks when you are dragging units to insert.

Your created orbat will be stored locally in the web browser, , so that it is available the next time you open up the Unit Symbol Generator. Simply delete the top-level unit to make sure nothing is saved.

Headquarters Elements

Headquartes elements can be idenified by the line in the upper part of the symbol Sample of how the orbat looks when you are dragging a headquarters element to insert.

To place a unit as a headquarters element, it must be a land unit, and the first modifier must be set as "Headquarters or headquarters staff element".

When drawn, headquarters elements will always be drawn before other subunits.

Moving Units

When you click on a unit, it will be set as the current unit in the orbat Builder menu, next to the unit there are buttons for moving the unit up and down in the current sub organization. You can't move an ordinary unit above headquarters elements, and you can't move headquarters elements below ordinary units.

Deleting Units

When you click on a unit, it will be set as the current unit in the Orbat Builder menu, next to the unit there is a trash can icon that will delete the unit (and all subunits) if pressed. If you select the top unit in your orbat and delete that, you will return to a blank orbat.

Open Orbat

Opens a JSON file with a previously saved orbat.

Save Orbat

Saves your orbat structure as a JSON file, or as an image as PNG or SVG.

The map uses locally stored PMTiles files to make sure that nothing is transmitted over the internet, and it is possible to download PMTiles files directly from Protomaps. Using PMTiles also makes it possible to use the maps component offline, like all other functionality.

To place units on the map, simply drag-n-drop the main icon or any icon from your favorites list on to the map. If you want to move a unit you have placed on the map, you first have to select it by clicking on it, and then you can move it by dragging it on the location where you want it.

You can move the map, or a selected unit, to a coordinate if you type it into the coordinate input, and then press enter. The coordinate you input can be in any format that the coordinate converter can convert.

Drawing shapes

Draw Point

Draws a point on the map, you can modify the color and name of the point once it is drawn. Click on the point to select it to be able to move it or change properties. Pressing backspace or delete when a point is selected will delete it from the map.

You can move a point to a coordinate if you type it into the coordinate input, and then press enter. The coordinate you input can be in any format that the coordinate converter can convert.

Draw Line

Draws a line on the map, you can modify the color and name of the line once it is drawn. Click on the line to select it to be able to move it or change properties. Pressing backspace or delete when a line is selected will delete it from the map.

When a line is selected you can click on individual vertices to see and modify the location of the vertices. Pressing backspace or delete when a vertex is selected will delete it from the map.
You can move a vertex to a coordinate if you type it into the coordinate input, and then press enter. The coordinate you input can be in any format that the coordinate converter can convert.

Draw Arrow

Draws an arrow on the map, you can modify the color and name of the arrow once it is drawn. Click on the arrow to select it to be able to move it or change properties. Pressing backspace or delete when an arrow is selected will delete it from the map.

When an arrow is selected you can click on individual vertices to see and modify the location of the vertices. Pressing backspace or delete when a vertex is selected will delete it from the map.
You can move a vertex to a coordinate if you type it into the coordinate input, and then press enter. The coordinate you input can be in any format that the coordinate converter can convert.

Draw Search Area

Draws a search area graphic on the map, you can modify the color of the seach area graphic once it is drawn. Click on the search area graphic to select it to be able to move it or change properties. Pressing backspace or delete when a search area graphic is selected will delete it from the map.

Draw Circle

Draws a circle on the map, you can modify the color and name of the circle once it is drawn. Click on the polygon to select it to be able to move it or change properties. Pressing backspace or delete when a circle is selected will delete it from the map.

You can move a circle to a coordinate if you type it into the coordinate input, and then press enter. The coordinate you input can be in any format that the coordinate converter can convert.

Draw Sector

Draws a circle sector on the map, you can modify the color and name of the circle once it is drawn. Click on the polygon to select it to be able to move it or change properties. Pressing backspace or delete when a circle is selected will delete it from the map.

You can move a circle to a coordinate if you type it into the coordinate input, and then press enter. The coordinate you input can be in any format that the coordinate converter can convert.

Draw Rectangle

Draws a rectangle on the map, you can modify the color and name of the rectangle once it is drawn. Click on the polygon to select it to be able to move it or change properties. Pressing backspace or delete when a circle is selected will delete it from the map.

You can move a rectangle to a coordinate if you type it into the coordinate input, and then press enter. The coordinate you input can be in any format that the coordinate converter can convert.

Draw Polygon

Draws a polygon on the map, you can modify the color and name of the polygon once it is drawn. Click on the polygon to select it to be able to move it or change properties. Pressing backspace or delete when a polygon is selected will delete it from the map.

When a polygon is selected you can click on individual vertices to see and modify the location of the vertices. Pressing backspace or delete when a vertex is selected will delete it from the map.
You can move a vertex to a coordinate if you type it into the coordinate input, and then press enter. The coordinate you input can be in any format that the coordinate converter can convert.

Open Map

Opens a GeoJSON file with units previously saved. When you open up a GeoJSON the units will be addded to the units you currently have on your map.

There is also limited support for opening KMZ files from Ukraine Control Map, general KMZ files are not supported.

Save Map

Saves the units on your map as a GeoJSON file, a KMZ file, or downloads the complete map as a PNG image.

Delete All

Deletes all units and graphics you have placed on the map.

Converts coordinates that you input in LatLong or MGRS into LatLong, MGRS, GARS, GEOREF, so that you always can send coordinates in suitable formats for different units. The functionality to use fuzzy logic to parse coordinate input in different ways has been developed using large quantities of real-world reports and still with many "creative" ways of writing coordinates.

If you find a coordinate that we can't parse, please send an email if possible, and we will try to expand our parsing capabilities.

Export favorites as ZIP file

Exports all the symbols you have in your favorites list as a ZIP file, containing all symbols rendered as both PNG and SVG, as well as a JSON with your favorites.

Open favorites list from File

Opens a JSON file with a previously saved favorites list.

Remove all favorites from list

Clears the local storage and remove all the favorites from your favorites list.

Remove all units from map

Removes all units that you have placed on the map.

What web browsers are supported?

Chrome 57 (2017-03-09)
Firefox 52 (2017-03-07)
Microsoft Edge
Safari on macOS and iOS

Attribution for images

For individual unit symbols, you don't have to cite attribuion, but if you would like to do so, use:

Unit symbols created with Unit Symbol Generator, spatialillusions.com, 2023

For orbats, if you keep the attribution in the image, no additional attribution needed. If you remove it, please provide attribution in your document as you would for other included images with:

Created with Unit Symbol Generator, spatialillusions.com, 2023

For maps you MUST give attribution for the map data to OpenStreetMap, and please provide attribution in a similar way as for orbats as well:

Created with Unit Symbol Generator, spatialillusions.com, 2023. Map data from OpenStreetMap

Unit Symbol Generator - www.spatialillusions.com (2024)

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Contact

External code - milsymbol , mil-std-2525 , and stanag-app6

External code - DragDropTouch

External code - fflate

External code - mgrs

External code - PMTiles

External code - MapLibre

External code - mapbox-gl-draw

External code - polylabel

Save to favorites

Download image

Favorites list

Reorder list

Export/Import list

Building an Orbat

Headquarters Elements

Moving Units

Deleting Units

Open Orbat

Save Orbat

Drawing shapes

Draw Point

Draw Line

Draw Arrow

Draw Search Area

Draw Circle

Draw Sector

Draw Rectangle

Draw Polygon

Open Map

Save Map

Delete All

Export favorites as ZIP file

Open favorites list from File

Remove all favorites from list

Remove all units from map

What web browsers are supported?

Attribution for images

References