Hi, I have something which is probably 80% of the way to what you want - I developed a little program to produce paper maps in parallel with maposmatic (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TownGuide) - I did not know we were working on such similar programs.
Because they were developed in silos, the code is completely different - My townguide program uses a PDF generator library (reportlabs) where you specify the layout of the page, then put content into it. This meant I could define different page layouts (fairly) easily - I started with a 'poster' idea which is shown in the wiki page above - this is very similar to maposmatic, but townguide will highlight points of interest for you and include them in a key on the page. The other page layout I always intended to develop was a booklet, which I think is what you are asking for - This has not been developed too well, but it works as a proof of concept at the moment - see the example at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/a/ab/Townguide_book.pdf The obvious things that need sorting are the map image resolution to make it look nice on paper, and the size of the individual page map tiles. I produced this with the 'version 1' of townguide. There is a version 2 in preparation (very slowly) that includes more customisation options and improved output resolution as a result of work done in last year's Google Summer of Code - things like adding GPX traces over the map. The code is all at http://code.google.com/p/townguide I have a wiki page there which provides installation instructions which should work for version 1 - there are some more dependencies required for version 2. I am afraid the demonstration web service that I used to have running is not working at the moment - I switched it off when xapi became so unreliable, and I have not re-built it after a little disk crash - it could easily be set up again to work with the new jxapi service if people are interested in it. You are very welcome to develop it if you want - I am willing to help get it up to a more 'production' quality - but struggle to spend too much time on it, which is why development has been so slow. Regards, Graham. On 8 June 2011 03:28, Samuel Mandell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.orgif >> 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- Graham Jones Hartlepool, UK.
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