I work for a municipality, and am currently working on several maps for our Leisure Services. However, I have had a lot of difficulty in finding symbols for many of the recreation activities that we have!! In the previous reply, a list was requested....here are the symbols I've needed for this project...the star's denote symbols that I've had to borrow, create or download off the net

Arenas ***
Community Centres ***
Baseball fields ***
Basket Ball Courts ****
Beaches
Best Start Hubs ***
BMX Facilities ***
Libraries
Museums ***
Outdoor skaing rinks ****
Outdoor tracks ****
Pools
Skateboard parks ****
Ski Hills
Soccer Fields ***
Splash Pads ****
Tennis Courts ***
Badminton ***
Youth Centres ***
Curling ***

Should someone have or develop this type of style, we would be happy to post it on our Styles page here on Mapping Center so that it can be shared with the ocmmunity. If you now have a style with all the symbols you listed and you want to send it to me, I would be happy to make it avialable to others here for you. Just click the Contact Us link to let me know.

Further to the list above, which is pretty comprehensive:
- Football fields
- Rugby fields
- Hockey rinks (a bit different from a general outdoor skating rink)
- Running (e.g. on a trail or track)
- RV park
- Rodeo grounds (how about a bucking horse?) - okay, I know I'm stretching it with this one, but it would be nice...
- A cat (as in the furry one with 4 legs and a tail) - for mapping out cat licenses

One thing that is very important to understand: municipalities make a lot of maps that are a very different style from what state or national parks services may make. Instead of having a bicycle in a square, we sometimes just need the bicycle. Or just a soccer ball (with no square or circle around it). Simpler is almost better as we can then create composite symbols to meet our own local style.

We need symbols for all the sports, such as pictures of:

Football
Basketball
Tennis Ball
Soccer Ball
Tennis Court
Stadium
Man Running
Etc.

In the past year or so we've had a number of request for sports related symbols. Can I get a show of hands on who is interested how the symbols would be applied for map use? If nothing else, then are they mostly requests for plain markers (wihout the Parks square surround) or complex layered symbols with color added?
Help us get a list together that would be of good use. Should the style be made of be sports figures or equipment, recreation fields and associated buildings and structures?

As a cartographer for the Community Basemap Program, this would be very exciting to see. The ability to better represent recreational areas, down to the lines on a soccer field, would be phenomenal and also increase interest in the Community Maps initiative.

It would be great to have one cohesive symbol set to represent sports and municipal facilities. I have a need for all the symbols listed above.

It would be great to have one cohesive symbol set to represent features for municipality general interactive maps such as City amenities and facilities. The following is a list of such features. It would be great to use the standard symbols if they already exist. For example, ANSI/NCITS 415-2006 standard includes symbols for some of the listed features. "Ultimate Symbol Set" is also a great source.

Arena
Art Centre
Athletic Park
Cemetery
City Park
City Parking
College or University
Community Centre
Courthouse
EMT/EMS Station
Fire Station
Golf Course
Hazard Good Drop
Health facility/Health Clinic
Hospital
Indoor Pool
Landfill
Leisure Centre
Library
LRT Station/CTrain Station
Off Leash Dog Area
Outdoor Pool
Police Station
Recycle Depot
School
Skate Park
Social Dev Centre
Tourist Attraction/Point of Interest
Visitor Info
Xmas Tree Drop

Was there any symbols created from this dicussion? I am looking for a skatepark icon or a skateboard icon to note a skatepark location on a map. Can you point me in the right direction as to where the icons were created and saved? Thanks.

We are aiming to post any relevant style(s) which is to contain most of the suggested listings in the very near future. It has been very helpful to receive input and direction from those of you who have taken the time to indicate what you need. All those in the comment thread will recieve an email to let you know when/where the style will be on the ArcGIS Resources Tab of Mapping Center.

Would it be possible to get a symbol for a skate park right away? I am working on a recreation map and making the final touches to it , but the only symbol I don't have is the skate park. I would create one myself but really don't have any idea where to start or how to create one. I appreciate your attentiveness to creating the symbols for those who need them! Thanks.

FYI there is a skateboard symbol in the ESRI NPS 2 font. It's a little person on a board - might meet your needs.

Crystal,
We won't be able to supply you with an individually designed symbol in the short term but we aim to get a style out as soon as possible. In the meantime, hopefully the symbol Tammy described from the ESRI NPS 2 font will help you.

Is ESRI NPS 2 font is ArcGIS 10? I can't seem to be able to view this one. I am working in 9.3.

It's available with 9.3.1

Look for the font names ESRI NPS 1, ESRI NPS 2, ESRI NPS 3, and ESRI NPS 4. Those are the fonts you are looking for.

Note that the NPS fonts are available for download from the Mapping Centre website for those using older versions of ArcMap - go to the ArcGIS Resources tab and look under Styles.

As a GIS Technician working for an municipality, the NPS syle does not have all the symbols I require. It's still missing activities such as...

Arena's (indoor)
Basketball
Beach (not just swimming)
Bacci courts
Day Care
BMX Tracks
Outdoor skating rinks
Indoor and Outdoor tracks
Soccer Fields
Football Fields
Splash Pads
Youth Centres
Curling

And any other activities that North American Society does on a regular basis.

Cheers!

We are still working on this style and it looks as though it warrants a couple of styles which are (1) activities and (2) sport fields or some defined division in order to cover the aspects of the sports.

Playground, sports field, tennis court and ice rink.
Any update on these symbols?

Were these municipal sport symbols ever finished and released by ESRI? If so, can someone point me to them?

Thank you
Alan

We have no final posting date at present, but have had to reconsider the overall design approach of the single style as not adequate or useful. Right now, the three styles we are working on are for small, medium and large scales with equipment, figures, and fields as relevant to the scale. The first issue will be for small scale and consist of point symbols only, thus addressing the majority of the more commonly requested sport items that you have submitted up to this date.

Are you designing them around using true type fonts (as was done with the NPS styles)? Or are you designing the image-based raster symbols (such as those used on ArcGIS Online). Hoping for the true type font approach...although I am sure both approaches would get used.

Reasoning for true type font approach: more flexible and a cleaner look the majority of mapping that we do.

Yes, we are still using the true type format approach for the first set of point symbols.

Hi,Is there any progress on this development of the discussed styles? Last post was August 2012 - saying "in development"?

Thanks

Sorry -- development was suspended with the dissolution of Mapping Center -- please submit an ArcGIS Idea (http://ideas.arcgis.com/) to get it into the development team's line of sight. Then if you can get a lot of people to vote to support this it will move up even higher in their list of priorities. Hope this helps!