Australasian All-Hazards Symbols Working Group

In 2006-07 a Victorian based GIS company, Spatial Vision, undertook a gap analysis of symbols used by Australian and New Zealand emergency services agencies.  This review was fully funded by ICSM and it is part of a staged approach to establishing an Australasian All-Hazards Symbol library.

The review entailed:

Task 1
Conducting an audit of key agencies involved in emergency management and response to compile a nationally consistent Incident Management System (IMS) symbology resource catalogue.  An IMS may encompass Incident Command/Control Systems (ICS).

Task 2
Conducting an audit to define the major categories of symbols for all-hazards used or required by Emergency Managers and response personnel and develop documentation outlining which categories of symbols are relevant to different types of organisations and events, gaps in existing categories and priority areas for additional work.

Feedback and the Final Report

Early drafts of the report have been reviewed within the Emergency Management community and feedback incorporated into a final report.  This feedback has now been received by ICSM.  Two actions have occurred:

1. Minor typographical errors (i.e. those not affecting the content of the report) and changes agreed by EMSINA have been done.
   
   
2. Feedback items which have not been resolved at this stage have been summarised in Appendix G and the full feedback statements included in Attachment A.

• The Reports Cover     (PDF format - 74KB)
• Body of the Report   (PDF format - 963KB)
• Appendix A - Symbols Audit - Agencies Consulted     (PDF format - 32KB)
• Appendix B - Symbols Audit - Results     (PDF format - 309KB)
• Appendix C - Workshop Summaries     (PDF format - 272KB)
• Appendix D - All-Hazards Features and Symbols     (PDF format - 345KB)
• Appendix E and F - Implementation Risks and Glossary of Abbreviations     (PDF format - 79KB)
• Appendix G - Summary of Un-actioned Feedback     (ZIP format - 88KB)
• Attachment A - Feedback Reports     (ZIP format - 815KB)

Where to from Here?

At the completion of this work, ICSM disbanded the Australasian All-Hazards Symbols Working Group.  ANZLIC - the Spatial Information Council, has undertaken the next stage in developing the Australasian All-Hazards Symbol library, including developing symbols sets in both ESRI and MapInfo formats.

For more information please refer to http://www.anzlic.org.au/Publications/Australasian+All-Hazards+Symbology+Project/default.aspx.  The symbols are contained in the symbology testing resource kit which is accessible from this page.

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