Thanks Simon, Looks like its technically possable. :) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/PDF_atlas http://www.lulu.com/en/products/travel_guides/ ... I imagine that each page could be wiki based, and essentially a screenshot of each page (saved as a PDF) and sent to Lulu ... Because the process requires identical mouse clicks to produce the updates. some kind of program could be made to automate it.(perl) .. ie. in JOSM the act of selecting an area and looking up the latest from the server, and producing a 'Snapshot' of the map. ... large areas can be grabbed which dont have towns around it and rendered just like a small section of a busy town. ... so the same process for making the UK map... but much bigger and different scales. ... Awsome to know that it IS possable, and that there are programmers out there who know how todo it. ... im sure eventually someone will be able to turn that description into english :) lol. It could be OSM Canada publishing.... built and edited by all the users. :) ... i imagine its possable to make the book with less than 100 pages.
And yes, your right ill be in contact with others who are building one before doing anything from scratch. BTW, im now about 1/2 way done the 4th track across canada from the Trans Canada Trails GPX file of the estimated route. ... unfortunatly because the origional sources are unknown, and the points dont have elevation attached, this can only be used as a guide. .. but fortunatly there is a high probability that the tracks in the file do actually run on abandond railway lines. :) BTW2 if this map book is of interest to anyone, feel free to post ideas on the Canada wiki project site. We can start out with points and ideas and work from there :) Cheers, Sam
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