On 27/03/2008 11:47, Frederik Ramm wrote: > 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.
This is great - well done. I did a one-off A2 paper map of Cambridge after I completed the City about a year ago, and one problem I had was that to get the whole city in the street names were too small on the whole. I see you solved thios by not putting the suburban residential street names in at all :-). > 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), ... we created the PDFs for > printing. Which is why the "make me a map" website/program that has been discussed on the list recently would be so useful. I think your perl processor offers the opportunity to deal with things like name placement in the future that would be extremely hard in the XSLT system > 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. Can you bring some to SOTM. (Maybe it will inspire the Irish mappers to have a paper map of Limerick available!) David _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
