Essentially what I'm looking for is the ability to produce a Thomas-Guide style maps book where a city is broken into printable pages (e.g. A6) and at the back would be an index of streets with corresponding page and x/y axis information.
As mentioned before it would be ideal if this could be automated so that all it would need is a city and it would produce the pages. Anybody interested in helping create such a system? -Samuel On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Dane Springmeyer <d...@dbsgeo.com> wrote: > Samuel, > > It seems to me like rendering the actual pages would be easier (than > actually rendering a large image, then chopping). This should also give > better results because the scales of things like text and lines would look > better. > > So, the way I would approach this would be to determine the size and > extents of each map for each page (ideally automatically). Then render each > one with Mapnik. So, your ingredients would be a width and height in pixels, > and bounding box for each page. Then write a python script to loop over > every page and render a map using an OSM stylesheet. > > If you don't have python scripts skills then we can think of alternatives, > but that would be my first recommendation. Mike Migurski, also author of > safety maps, has done this with Mapnik for printed bike maps of SF, so he > could likely advise. > > On Jun 6, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Mikel Maron wrote: > > Folks, what did we have in place to produce map books? > > > Making mapbooks easier to script, via python, with Mapnik has long been a > goal of mine. > > But I've not really gotten past proof of concept. One usecase is making a > map of every "feature" in a dataset that meets some criteria. I wrote a > script a while ago that demonstrates how to do that with mapnik by querying > all countries over a given population and them rendering a map for each, > while painting a special outline over their border. Code is here: > http://mapnik-utils.googlecode.com/svn/example_code/map_sequences/ and an > animated gif to demonstrate what is done is here: > > http://dbsgeo.com/tmp/mapnik_animated.gif > > Can Mapsomatic easily be modified for different formats/scales? > > > It can be done but I've found that hacking around in MapOsMatic requires a > lot of patience and pretty high python/cairo skill level. > > > http://www.safety-maps.org/ was a recent project to do something similar. > I know the developers would be interested to hear more ideas how to make it > useful. > > > safety-maps are awesome. > > > == Mikel Maron == > +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron > > > ----- Forwarded Message ---- > *From:* Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> > *To:* Samuel Mandell <shmand...@gmail.com> > *Cc:* talk@openstreetmap.org > *Sent:* Mon, June 6, 2011 4:16:08 PM > *Subject:* Re: [OSM-talk] Disaster Preparedness Project > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Samuel Mandell <shmand...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I'm designing a project whose goal is to prepare folks in my community > for > > disasters. An essential part of any disaster kit are maps of the local > area > > so that when electricity has gone out people can still navigate to > specific > > areas of the city (for instance to get supplies or medical help). > > OpenStreetMap has comprehensive map data for my area (the San Francisco > Bay > > Area) and I'd like to use the mapping data to create maps for the various > > cities to hand-out to residents. Since I'd need detailed (1:4800) of an > > entire city I haven't been able to use the export tool since it seems to > > have some built in limits to how large of an image it will generate > (which > > makes sense). For Mountain View, CA the image size we'd want to generate > is > > around 9409 x 11310 with a 1:4800 scale, in other words, very large. We > > would then cut this into smaller squares and print it out in a booklet > with > > attribution to OpenStreetMap for the data and visuals. > > What's the best way for us to generate these detailed maps of the various > > cities? > > Well that sounds awesome. > > You might try downloading an extract of OSM data for that area. You > should be able to find an extract that deals with California, or the > US West. That way you don't have to deal with an entire planet full > of data. Then use Mapnik or one of the other rendering tools to > generate your map. You'll likely want to adjust the style sheet to > make it just right for emergency awareness. > > There is a company in SF area experienced in printing high resolution > maps from OSM data. Perhaps they'll do it for you for free since it is > such a worthy project? > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > h...@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > >
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