Hi everyone, FYI WikiTravel offers instructions on how to create a 'WikiTravel Style' Map (using OSM data)
http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:How_to_create_a_map (the instructions require super-human powers, that i dont have yet, but others might be able to translate it to "WikiMap for Dummies" :-) And thank you Gervase for pointing out that you can export a SVG from OSM. And using Inkscape to play. You can also SaveAs an OpenOffice file, then play with it a bit more in OpenOffice Draw and add in map keys & other map stuff. (changing colour of the polygons & line types etc.) & breaking apart & grouping the areas etc. I use Marble Desktop as it has a nice Mapnik Legend that is easy to copy & move it round the page (using 'PrtScr' button on the keyboard with Windows paint (or Equivenent Linux program) and paste it there and just select what you like & paste it in the OpenOffice Draw document to work with. Hope that helps, Cheers, Sam On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Gary68 <[email protected]> wrote: > > dear ian, > > could you please be a little bit more precise what you don't like at > osmarender and especially mapgen.pl? > > of course a lot of appearance is defined in the style file and the > symbols being used - i didn't spend much time there! (i was challenged > by the render engine). it (mapgen) is not aimed to be a fully blown > renderer - however if it's possible i might implement some improvements. > > cheers > > gerhard > gary68 > > > > On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 07:53 -0500, Ian Dees wrote: >> n Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to render a map of about a square mile or so of the >> town of >> Bromley, in Kent, for the information sheet for my wedding in >> August (yay!). >> http://osm.org/go/0EEBWURG >> I want to make the map, then remove a few bits which I don't >> need and >> add stuff to it like bigger labels on some important POIs like >> the >> church and the nearest station. I want it to look >> professional. >> >> This is just the sort of thing OSM should be good for, or so I >> hope :-) >> >> My first effort involved an SVG export of the Mapnik image >> from the main >> website. This is pretty good; the only problem is that the >> roads are >> unnecessarily narrow and so the road names are small and hard >> to read. >> I'd like pretty much that map, except with wider roads and >> bigger text. >> It would take an age to change it all manually in the SVG. >> What are my >> options for a custom render? >> >> - Mapnik: requires an incredible amount of setup, according to >> the wiki >> page. >> >> - Osmarender: It's ugly. Sorry, but it is. >> >> - mapgen.pl: Same. >> >> - Kosmos: I'm on Linux, and it only really runs on Windows. >> >> - Cobra: development seems dead. >> >> - Cartagen: It does road labels square on, which I don't like. >> >> - Cloudmade: initially, this seemed really promising. They >> have a >> variety of styles, and I probably could make >> one with wider roads, but the Terms of Service are so long >> and >> complex, and say "don't do anything with this data that >> isn't your >> own personal use" about three times in different ways, so I >> assume I >> can't use it. >> >> Any ideas? Is there an online service to which one can submit >> a Mapnik >> style sheet and get back a rendering of a small area? >> >> >> >> I'm interested in this, too, because I want to draw OSM data in my car >> computer as a sort of GPS satnav/realtime editor. >> >> >> Dane (of Mapnik fame) suggested I use Mapnik with the OSM data plugin. >> That cuts out the majority of the setup time due to PostGIS install >> and import of OSM data. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
