Hi Harry, thanks a lot for helping out, this is of great help in the short term! I've printed out a small part of the image, and people are already impressed, which makes me even more keen on getting HDM-cartoCSS to work, so that I can include updates and possibly some local data I don't want uploaded to OSM.
Thanks again, Laurent On Tue 17 Sep 2013 05:33:49 AM CEST, Harry Wood wrote: > Hi Laurent > An easy (crude) way to do a high quality printout is to generate a very high > resolution raster image just by stitching tiles. > > I don't know if it's helpful for you because you're on a slow internet > connection, but I've just made a big image if Kalemie for you > It's 9216 x 15360 pixels. That's 6 Mb to download. The kalemie.png link > here: http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/kalemie/ > The smaller kalemie-thumb.png gives feel for what it looks like and where the > map covers. > > Getting HDM-cartoCSS might be a smarter solution. Maybe someone can advise > you on the hardcoded paths problem (/home/ybon/...) (Yohan Boniface?) > > Harry > > ________________________________ > From: Laurent Savaëte <[email protected]> > To: hot <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, 16 September 2013, 22:48 > Subject: [HOT] printing HDM map from osm > > > Hello hello, > > I am currently at http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/-5.9185/29.1926, > working for MSF/Doctors without borders. > We're gearing up in preparation for a cholera vaccination campaign, and > quite possibly other emergency actions as the annual cholera epidemic is > looming around. > I have spent several days updating OSM both remotely and locally to get > a decent map of the city (there's still a lot to do though), but I'm now > stuck trying to get a usable printout. > I've tried several options (maperitive, maposmatic, osm bright/tilemill, > QGIS import...) but nothing seems to work (I want a pdf output so I can > print on several A4 pages and tape them together, showing streetnames > and other landmarks). Ideally, I'd get > https://github.com/hotosm/HDM-CartoCSS to work, but same thing there, no > luck despite following the readme. I'd love to give some more detailed > symptoms, but all I can say is: > - errors in tilemill due to hardcoded paths (/home/ybon/...) > - no visible reaction from tilemill after I close the error messages > I'm on a satellite connection (ie: pretty slow and expensive) so this > might explain the absence of reaction. > > I think this is not the official help channel for HDM-cartoCSS, but I > hope this will reach the right people. I'd be immensely grateful for any > help getting this to work (is there a detailed tutorial out there for > places other than Haiti?), or suggestions on an alternative solution for > printing out an osm based map (that does not involve downloading huge > data!). > > Thanks in advance, > Laurent > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
