NATO Joint Military Symbology

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Example Symbols
An unidentified hostile motorized anti-tank division
1 DPLeg		Wyszków
Polish 1st Legions Infantry Division of Operational Group Wyszków
3 PPCLI		1 CMBG
3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry of 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group
4 Pz		XXIV
4th Panzer Division of XXIV Army Corps
		82 Abn
82nd Airborne Division Artillery Brigade

NATO Joint Military Symbology is the NATO standard for military map symbols. Originally published in 1986 as Allied Procedural Publication 6 (APP-6), NATO Military Symbols for Land Based Systems, the standard has evolved over the years and is currently in its fifth version (APP-6D). The symbols are designed to enhance NATO's joint interoperability by providing a standard set of common symbols. APP-6 constituted a single system of joint military symbology for land, air, space and sea-based formations and units, which can be displayed for either automated map display systems or for manual map marking. It covers all of the joint services and can be used by them.