n Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Gervase Markham <gerv-gm...@gerv.net> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'd like to render a map of about a square mile or so of the town of > Bromley, in Kent, for the information sheet for my wedding in August > (yay!). > http://osm.org/go/0EEBWURG > I want to make the map, then remove a few bits which I don't need and > add stuff to it like bigger labels on some important POIs like the > church and the nearest station. I want it to look professional. > > This is just the sort of thing OSM should be good for, or so I hope :-) > > My first effort involved an SVG export of the Mapnik image from the main > website. This is pretty good; the only problem is that the roads are > unnecessarily narrow and so the road names are small and hard to read. > I'd like pretty much that map, except with wider roads and bigger text. > It would take an age to change it all manually in the SVG. What are my > options for a custom render? > > - Mapnik: requires an incredible amount of setup, according to the wiki > page. > > - Osmarender: It's ugly. Sorry, but it is. > > - mapgen.pl: Same. > > - Kosmos: I'm on Linux, and it only really runs on Windows. > > - Cobra: development seems dead. > > - Cartagen: It does road labels square on, which I don't like. > > - Cloudmade: initially, this seemed really promising. They have a > variety of styles, and I probably could make > one with wider roads, but the Terms of Service are so long and > complex, and say "don't do anything with this data that isn't your > own personal use" about three times in different ways, so I assume I > can't use it. > > Any ideas? Is there an online service to which one can submit a Mapnik > style sheet and get back a rendering of a small area? > > I'm interested in this, too, because I want to draw OSM data in my car computer as a sort of GPS satnav/realtime editor. Dane (of Mapnik fame) suggested I use Mapnik with the OSM data plugin. That cuts out the majority of the setup time due to PostGIS install and import of OSM data.
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