Hi Nic, I'm not deleting the barcode. I'm creating a new pdf which only contains my annotations (that's where the deletion comes in) and then merging it back onto the original pdf (which contains the barcode, map image and Walking-papers information) using pdftk.
Regards, David 2010/10/3 Nic Roets <[email protected]>: > Hello David, > > Once you delete the barcode, it misses the point completely, but I > don't think anyone will mind. > > Look at this: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Static_map_images > > Regards, > Nic > > 2010/10/3 David Richfield <[email protected]>: >> I like to abuse walking-papers to generate nice printable pdfs from >> openstreetmap tiles - the fact that they have some information at the >> top gives them the added advantage of being an advertisement for the >> project as a whole. >> >> I have just figured out a relatively straightforward recipe for adding >> free-form annotations to the maps (e.g. X marks the spot; here is the >> party place; here's the route for the nude bike race; whatever.) >> >> 1. Make your pdf at http://walking-papers.org/ (let's say you save it >> as Orig.pdf) >> 2. Open it in Inkscape (default import settings are fine) >> 3. Draw whatever you like on the pdf >> 4. Delete everything that was there before you started (tile images, >> 2D barcode, etc. - this might be easier if, before you start, you >> select all and group it together) >> 5. All that's left is your annotations - save them as a pdf (for >> example Annot.pdf) >> 6. Put them onto the original walking-papers pdf with pdftk: >> >> pdftk Orig.pdf stamp Annot.pdf output AnnotatedMap.pdf >> >> I tried saving the whole pdf directly from Inkscape (i.e. not deleting >> the background and skipping the pdftk step), but it gave me a huge >> file as a result: Inkscape seems to be re-encoding the background >> image, and I couldn't figure out how to make it do so at the same >> quality and size as the original. This way, you're guaranteed to get >> the walking-paper back untouched, but with your markup added as >> vectors. >> >> So: >> >> a) Is it OK to use Walking-papers this way? >> b) Is there a good way to get a nice, printable, paper-sized vector >> map from OSM data instead of using Walking-papers? >> >> -- >> David Richfield >> e^(πi)+1=0 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ZA mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za >> > -- David Richfield e^(πi)+1=0 _______________________________________________ Talk-ZA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
