Re: [Talk-us] Creating PDF maps
You're asking two separate questions, one is on creating a PDF map, the other is a style sheet that shows something other than what osm.xml (the standard style on osm.org) does. I wrote mapbook (https://github.com/pnorman/mapbook) which will create a PDF using Mapnik's default AGG renderer. It works with any mapnik style file, although I find that osm.xml is not well suited to print. You can also render directly to a PDF as vectors with mapnik, but this is lower quality and larger than a high resolution bitmap. I had a look at the area in JOSM and I can't see much data that the osm.xml style doesn't render. What amenities were you thinking of that aren't rendering? Incidentally, could someone verify if http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/159553109 exists? It shows on the high zoom imagery but not the lower zoom, and the lower zoom may be more recent. From: Clifford Snow [mailto:cliff...@snowandsnow.us] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 7:40 PM To: talk-us Subject: [Talk-us] Creating PDF maps Can someone point me to an easy to use resource to create a map in a pdf file? For example, Discovery Park in Seattle is a great resource. It has Puget Sound on the west side, great trails, hidden ponds, a cultural center, a veteran's cemetery, playgrounds, a some of the best views of the Olympic Mountains. I'd like to produce a map that could be sent out showing what's offered. I could just grab a screen shot, but Mapnik doesn't show all of the amenities. I'm thinking that I could use this example to convince others that using OSM beats the alternatives. So, what do you use? Thanks, Clifford ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Creating PDF maps
Hi, On 06/28/2012 04:39 AM, Clifford Snow wrote: Can someone point me to an easy to use resource to create a map in a pdf file? For example, Discovery Park in Seattle is a great resource. It has Puget Sound on the west side, great trails, hidden ponds, a cultural center, a veteran's cemetery, playgrounds, a some of the best views of the Olympic Mountains. I'd like to produce a map that could be sent out showing what's offered. I could just grab a screen shot, but Mapnik doesn't show all of the amenities. You could check out the Maperitive software (for Windows, or Linux with Mono) which allows you to save your map as SVG, and you can then make good PDFs from that. Maperitive has its own styling language and comes with a number of ready-made styles where you will probably have add extra rules for the details you care about. Other options: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_on_Paper Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] Creating PDF maps
Can someone point me to an easy to use resource to create a map in a pdf file? For example, Discovery Park in Seattle is a great resource. It has Puget Sound on the west side, great trails, hidden ponds, a cultural center, a veteran's cemetery, playgrounds, a some of the best views of the Olympic Mountains. I'd like to produce a map that could be sent out showing what's offered. I could just grab a screen shot, but Mapnik doesn't show all of the amenities. I'm thinking that I could use this example to convince others that using OSM beats the alternatives. So, what do you use? Thanks, Clifford ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] Rails with trails
Currently it's simple enough to find most (correctly-tagged) rail trails in the database: find anything tagged railway=abandoned and highway=[one of the trail values]. These trails are usually flatter than roads, and are therefore well-suited for long-distance cycling. But another popular kind of rail trail, a "rail with trail", cannot be found in this manner. Generally the railway company will lease part of its right-of-way to the trail organization, with a fence separating the rail from the trail. (This is possible because a large number of main lines had at least two tracks in railroading's heyday.) This may be a self-contained trail, or a portion of a longer 'standard' rail trail that shifts to the side where a short piece of the rail is still in use. These trails have the same features as rail trails, with the possible bonus of being able to watch trains on an active railroad. Ideally a map of rail trails should include them (e.g. the one in Trains magazine's May 2011 issue), but there's no easy way to determine if a trail is one. Does anyone have any ideas for tagging? The simplest would be something like rail_with_trail=yes or maybe railway=adjacent. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
