Niche work, looks a great map and a great showcase. Cheers
Andy >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:talk- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frederik Ramm >Sent: 27 March 2008 11:48 AM >To: OSM-Talk Talk >Subject: [OSM-talk] OSM "real" paper map of Freiburg, Germany > >Hi, > > Jochen and I have produced a "real" paper map of the city of >Freiburg for the FOSSGIS 2008 conference. The map is an A3, two >sided, full colour print, folded just like city maps are usually >folded; we have printed 1,000 copies for a total price of 360 Euros >plus VAT. The printing is paid for by GAV, one of the conference >sponsors. One side of the map has a detailed city plan, the other >side has a "grand picture" overview and copious OSM advertising on it. > >We're very proud of the quality we achieved here. Both maps were >created with Osmarender (one with the original XSLT variant, one with >my Perl implementation as a "proof of concept"). It was quite a lot >of work; we first tweaked the rules file to get the right colours >(i.e. the usual colours in German city maps), then we did some >modifications on the OSM file itself using JOSM (some of which we >uploaded and some not because they were specific for this map, like >breaking a way in the middle to achieve better text placement). After >that we created the SVG file and fine-tuned that with Inkscape. >Finally, a high-resolution PNG was rendered and a finishing touch was >applied using the GIMP (removing some rendering artifacts etc). The >resulting bitmap was then again imported into a new SVG document, >from which we created the PDFs for printing. > >A photo of the finished "real printed maps" is here: >http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/freiburg.jpg >(The front page has an OSGeo logo because they are also sponsors of >the conference, but if you look at the full content you'll see that >the logo is the only OSGeo presence - 90% of text is about OSM!) > >And the full content, as PDF, is here: >http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/freiburg-stadtplan.zip > >Everything is Public Domain or CC-BY-SA where it's derived OSM stuff, >and I'll gladly make intermediate files (Osmarender rules files etc.) >available if there's interest. > >Also, if some of you are contemplating similar projects or just want >a copy as a "showcase" of what can be done with OSM data, I can send >you a paper copy if you tell me where to send it to. > >Bye >Frederik > >-- >Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > > > >_______________________________________________ >talk mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
