spatialillusions / milsymbol-server

Military Symbol Server, a minimal web server that delivers military symbols as images

Milsymbol in Node.js

This is an example of how you can create a minimal military symbol server using Node.js and milsymbol.

It supports output of military symbols as SVG and as PNG, you can use all options available for milsymbol to add modifiers for your symbols as well.

Installation:

npm install milsymbol-server

To start the server, navigate to this folder in a terminal and run:

node index.js

Docker Container:

milsymbol-server will be available from Docker Hub, but at the moment you will have to build the server by your self by running

docker build -t spatialillusions/milsymbol-server:1.0.0 .

In order to run the server as a daemon and map the exposed port to your host just run

docker run -d -p 2525:2525 spatialillusions/milsymbol-server:1.0.0

The symbols are named SIDC.FILETYPE, and you can access them using:

http://${hostname}:${port}/SFG-UCI---.png or

http://${hostname}:${port}/SFG-UCI---.svg

You can add any milsymbol options to the query string

SFG-UCI---.png?uniqueDesignation=BA01&square=true

Public test server

Thanks to the wonderful people at syncpoint.io there is a public server that you can try out at:

https://milsymbol-server.syncpoint.io/

Here is a sample URL that you can try out:

https://milsymbol-server.syncpoint.io/SFGPEXL-----.svg?uniqueDesignation=MILSYMBOL&higherFormation=SYNCPOINT.IO