Hello I think this is the proper mailing list to ask these questions, I couldn't find any other more appropriate, and the forums were closed to new subscriptions.
What I want to do: I want to create in SVG a map (Europe, Atlantic ocean, N America Greenland) with the continents as one shape (with fill). No details on the maps, no cities no country names, no nothing. Just the seashore line making a filled shape. I though I could use openstreetmaps, for this. Problems: a) when I output to SVG a small or big area no matter what scale I use the details of the shapes don't get simpler. Is there any way to get a simplified coastline, from OSM, just by increasing the scale? b) I found out that a lot of information are not displayed in an SVG viewer, however, the data are contained in the SVG file, making it more bloated. For example, when I export a small area, this area is visible and rendered by an vector editor (like Inkscape) or a image viewer (like Eye of GNOME). However, if I ungroup all the shapes in inkscape then I found out that a bigger area is present but simply not visible. Is it possible to get rid of the extra data (appart from the area I have requested from OSM)? c) when I export big areas I found out that the areas are tiled .For example Greenland is made of a lot of smaller tiles. If the tile is in the middle of the land, it's just a square, if it's in the coastline part of it is shaped according to the coastline. Is it possible to get a unified shape? I am totally new to OSM and I don't know exactly what to look at. If I need to read some things first in order to understand, provide some links! Regards Vangelis Katsikaros PS BTW, do you know the forums are closed to new subscriptions? _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
