Thomas Wood wrote: > 2009/3/13 Akkana Peck <[email protected]>: > >>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. >> >>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. > > > The default lowzoom cloudmade render is quite nice > http://maps.cloudmade.com/?lat=38.959409&lng=-96.064453&zoom=4&styleId=1 >
That proves the information I'm looking for exists. Now to find out how to conviently: 1. get ONLY what what I want. 2. render it for *OFFLINE* use. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
