Jean-Guilhem, It sounds like there could be a lot of demand for the ability to generate these map booklets. *Thomas* - are there any updates on this effort from the MapOSMatic side of things? I am working with a group of designers on the disaster prepardness project so we can definitely contribute design resources. -Samuel
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > After the recent flood in Haut-Richelieu, Québec, and the request to use > MapOSMatic in this context, it happens that I met Thomas, one of the > developers of MapOSMatic. > > When I had asked about this functionality of map booklet, he had told me > that they had started working on this (or on features that would make this > easier, I don't remember exactly) during the Hackfest last August. > > Maybe coordinating efforts on this would be the best way to move forward? > > > By the way, he also told me that he had sent an email reply, that > apparently was moderated on lists he is not a member of, and that I have not > seen. He explained that there was still a lag in the database updates (after > the MapOSMatic database had been down). > About the mapping of a specific area defined by a relation (not necessarily > a city), it might be not be too far from what is done with administrative > boundary ways, but would require a mean to transmit or specify the desired > area. > > > Anyway Samuel, I invite you to have a look at http://www.maposmatic.org if > you have not already (there seems to be a problem at the moment with a job > over Berlin, hopefully not for long). > > Best regards, > > Jean-Guilhem > > > Le 07/06/2011 08:51, Samuel Mandell a écrit : > > 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 <[email protected]>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 <[email protected]> >> *To:* Samuel Mandell <[email protected]> >> *Cc:* [email protected] >> *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 <[email protected]> >> 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 >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing > [email protected]http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > -- > pgp 0x5939EAE2 > >
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