(task) UN - OCHA - 500 freely available humanitarian icons

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On Nov 2, 2014, at 4:40 PM, Kathy Gilbeaux <gilbojer@aol.com> wrote:

> Mike / George / Jeff
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> FYI . . .
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> OCHA Humanitarian Icons
> In August 2012, The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs (OCHA) created a set of 500 freely available humanitarian icons to help relief workers present emergency and crisis-related information quickly and simply.
> MapAction has been using these icons in many of its maps and has recently converted the icons so that can be used in ArcGIS and QGIS. The files consist of true type fonts, ESRI Stylesheets and QGIS XML files for the bounded, unbounded and transparent formats. Also available is installation guide.
> These can be downloaded here - OCHA Humanitarian Icons for GIS and are "free for use".
> Whenever possible please credit as follows: “Source: OCHA & MapAction
> http://www.mapaction.org/resources/gis-resources.html
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> Example - Sierra Leone - UK - MapAction
> http://www.mapaction.org/deployments/mapdetail/3588.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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> Kathy
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