On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:57 PM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Some of us were discussing making a custom hiking map styles on IRC > earlier so we can print out such maps or use them in presentations to > show bush walkers the potential of what they can get back out of OSM. > > I don't think any of us has had much to do with hiking maps, so is > anyone on this list an experienced hiker that could help us come up > with a suitable hiking map style sheet? > > I've also been playing with contour lines on OSM map tiles, but I > think instead of cluttering up the common mapnik rendering this would > be better in a hiking style. > > http://maps.bigtincan.com/?z=14&ll=-27.097,152.532&layer=B0000000000TT > I would suggest using the orienteering map style
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orienteering_map http://www.orienteering.org/i3/index.php?/iof2006/content/download/866/4026/file/International_Specification_for_Orienteering_Maps_2000.pdf The advantage of the orienteering map style is that it emphasises features which can be used for navigation and route planning. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
