Akkana Peck wrote: > I sent an offline response to Richard, he responded and we decided > it might be better to have some of it on the list, so here goes: > > Richard Owlett writes: > >>I'm looking for an *outline* map of North America showing national, >>state, and provincial boundaries for U.S. and Canada. >> >>My particular use is assisting someone else to plot some bird migration >>data. I can see the same outline having use for geography lessons from >>primary school thru college. >> >>In the past week I've spent >8 fruitless hours browsing >>www.openstreetmap.org and its wiki. > > > The national and US state boundaries are definitely there in > the OSM data: they aren't drawn in the default "Mapnik" view > on openstreetmap.org, but if you click on the + over at the top > right and choose the Osmarender layer you'll see them.
I *don't* see them in the Osmarender layer view. I *do* see them in the Noname layer view. attempted with 2 different browsers Mozilla 1.7.12 and Firefox 3.0.6 under WinXP Pro SP2 > > The trick is displaying them in a nice clean display with all > the rest of the data hidden. And I'm not sure there's any app > that can do that. The big three OSM programs, JOSM, Potlatch > and Merkaartor, are all aimed at editing, not at letting you > turn things off and on to make a nice clean display. > > Maybe your best bet is to set up a web-based view using the OSM > databases, and then you can make stylesheets to show only what you > want. But that's a lot of work. That might work as an intermediate step. As I understand the problem definition, what is needed is an image (png or jpeg or ???) to resider on the site's server. > > I recently needed something similar to what you're asking for > (a US map with state outlines, for an article illustration). > I ended up getting an SVG image of the US from Wikimedia Commons, I need US and Canada in same image. > editing it in GIMP to get it down to just the state boundaries, > then overlaying a satellite image (also from Wikimedia Commons) > which I had to adjust with the perspective tool to get it to fit > the projection of the SVG image. Using OSM data would have been > a cleaner solution, but lacking an app that can display data > selectively, using GIMP seemed a lot easier and faster. > > ...Akkana > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
