OT, I know, but I would love to see the same thing available as Kindle friendly pdf (or native ebook format) download. I recently drove around France for a weekend wishing that my atlas was Open, offline and on my ebook reader.
Cheers, Joseph On 7 June 2011 07:51, Samuel Mandell <shmand...@gmail.com> wrote: > Essentially what I'm looking for is the ability to produce a Thomas-Guide > style maps book where a city is broken into printable pages (e.g. A6) and at > the back would be an index of streets with corresponding page and x/y axis > information. > As mentioned before it would be ideal if this could be automated so that all > it would need is a city and it would produce the pages. Anybody interested > in helping create such a system? > -Samuel > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Dane Springmeyer <d...@dbsgeo.com> wrote: >> >> Samuel, >> It seems to me like rendering the actual pages would be easier (than >> actually rendering a large image, then chopping). This should also give >> better results because the scales of things like text and lines would look >> better. >> So, the way I would approach this would be to determine the size and >> extents of each map for each page (ideally automatically). Then render each >> one with Mapnik. So, your ingredients would be a width and height in pixels, >> and bounding box for each page. Then write a python script to loop over >> every page and render a map using an OSM stylesheet. >> If you don't have python scripts skills then we can think of alternatives, >> but that would be my first recommendation. Mike Migurski, also author of >> safety maps, has done this with Mapnik for printed bike maps of SF, so he >> could likely advise. >> On Jun 6, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Mikel Maron wrote: >> >> Folks, what did we have in place to produce map books? >> >> >> Making mapbooks easier to script, via python, with Mapnik has long been a >> goal of mine. >> But I've not really gotten past proof of concept. One usecase is making a >> map of every "feature" in a dataset that meets some criteria. I wrote a >> script a while ago that demonstrates how to do that with mapnik by querying >> all countries over a given population and them rendering a map for each, >> while painting a special outline over their border. Code is >> here: http://mapnik-utils.googlecode.com/svn/example_code/map_sequences/ and >> an animated gif to demonstrate what is done is here: >> http://dbsgeo.com/tmp/mapnik_animated.gif >> >> Can Mapsomatic easily be modified for different formats/scales? >> >> It can be done but I've found that hacking around in MapOsMatic requires a >> lot of patience and pretty high python/cairo skill level. >> >> http://www.safety-maps.org/ was a recent project to do something similar. >> I know the developers would be interested to hear more ideas how to make it >> useful. >> >> safety-maps are awesome. >> >> >> == Mikel Maron == >> +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron >> >> ----- Forwarded Message ---- >> From: Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> >> To: Samuel Mandell <shmand...@gmail.com> >> Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org >> Sent: Mon, June 6, 2011 4:16:08 PM >> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Disaster Preparedness Project >> >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Samuel Mandell <shmand...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > I'm designing a project whose goal is to prepare folks in my community >> > for >> > disasters. An essential part of any disaster kit are maps of the local >> > area >> > so that when electricity has gone out people can still navigate to >> > specific >> > areas of the city (for instance to get supplies or medical help). >> > OpenStreetMap has comprehensive map data for my area (the San Francisco >> > Bay >> > Area) and I'd like to use the mapping data to create maps for the >> > various >> > cities to hand-out to residents. Since I'd need detailed (1:4800) of an >> > entire city I haven't been able to use the export tool since it seems to >> > have some built in limits to how large of an image it will generate >> > (which >> > makes sense). For Mountain View, CA the image size we'd want to generate >> > is >> > around 9409 x 11310 with a 1:4800 scale, in other words, very large. We >> > would then cut this into smaller squares and print it out in a booklet >> > with >> > attribution to OpenStreetMap for the data and visuals. >> > What's the best way for us to generate these detailed maps of the >> > various >> > cities? >> >> Well that sounds awesome. >> >> You might try downloading an extract of OSM data for that area. You >> should be able to find an extract that deals with California, or the >> US West. That way you don't have to deal with an entire planet full >> of data. Then use Mapnik or one of the other rendering tools to >> generate your map. You'll likely want to adjust the style sheet to >> make it just right for emergency awareness. >> >> There is a company in SF area experienced in printing high resolution >> maps from OSM data. Perhaps they'll do it for you for free since it is >> such a worthy project? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> h...@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk