It would seem that there is serious demand for this kind of data, and that
there is either a potential or a missed opportunity here.
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote:
There's something OSM could do well, that Google Maps can't, due to
licensing restrictions: create good printable maps. Google and Mapquest
both are pretty bad.
The high volume use cases:
* Printing a map for take
Also:
-Export images using the Export tab
-Walking Papers http://walking-papers.org/ (my favorite quick printed map
solution)
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com
wrote:
There's something
Bryce,
On 12/05/2011 07:16 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
There's something OSM could do well, that Google Maps can't, due to
licensing restrictions: create good printable maps. Google and Mapquest
both are pretty bad.
The high volume use cases:
I think there's also fun to be had with low-volume
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
Maposmatic - pretty one page map with street index.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maposmatic
Appears idle
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ImgAtlas
Perhaps this one for multipage?
On 12/5/2011 3:48 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
I've tried a number of these options as well as Walking Papers as Brad
mentioned but (when they worked) they failed for what I needed because
they all used tiles downloaded from openstreetmap.org. The tiles from
osm.org work well enough for on-screen
Hi,
On 12/05/2011 09:48 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
I've tried a number of these options as well as Walking Papers as Brad
mentioned but (when they worked) they failed for what I needed because
they all used tiles downloaded from openstreetmap.org.
Neither Walking Papers, nor Hikingbook, nor
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
On 12/05/2011 09:48 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
I've tried a number of these options as well as Walking Papers as Brad
mentioned but (when they worked) they failed for what I needed because
they all used tiles downloaded
Hi,
On 12/05/2011 10:44 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
Neither Walking Papers, nor Hikingbook, nor Maposmatic *ever* used tiles
from osm.org.
Whatever the ultimate source, both Walking Papers and Maposmatic use
Mapnik style sheets close enough to the main osm.org style sheets that
the difference is
With walking papers you can use other renderings. The default one is
the OSM tiles though. There are a couple other Cloudmade styles in
there.
Best,
-Kate
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Hi,
On 12/05/2011 10:44 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
Neither
There's something OSM could do well, that Google Maps can't, due to
licensing restrictions: create good printable maps. Google and Mapquest
both are pretty bad.
The high volume use cases:
* Printing a map for take along navigation, on a standard printer.
* Exporting a map for embedding in
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