On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Paul Norman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 pulled mapbook. This looks very promising. A question about height and width. How do you determine those values? And what are columns? Right now I can't run the code, I'm missing some packages, but that should be easy enough to resolve. > **** > > ** ** > > 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? > I don't see benches and guideposts (tag information=guidepost). It may be my lack of knowing where to look also. But when I look at OpenStreetMap those amenities don't show up. > **** > > ** ** > > 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.**** > > ** > You are right. I walk right past there getting gps tracings for trails. The building is gone. Much of what was an old military base is being converted in to natural habitat. I suspect it was pulled down about the same time that much of the housing was removed. Thanks, Clifford > ** > > >
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