Hi, I'm trying to make a poster (20" x 30") collage of pictures from a recent road trip I took. I drove up the west coast of California and I want to make the left 20% or so of the poster (so, 30" tall by about 4" wide) a map image of the route I took. Is mapnik a good tool for doing this?
I just want to create something that looks roughly like a google maps image in that size, at high enough resolution for printing (200 dpi). I'd use google maps tiles themselves except they are obviously too low quality. If mapnik is a good tool for this, are there any tutorials that explain how I might do this? I've followed a few of the tutorials but I'm unclear primarily on: a) what map data I need (roads, physical boundaries?) and b) where to get it (tiger/line seems logical but I am unsure how to understand all the different shape files they offer, it seems overkill). And beyond that, I think I will need to combine multiple shapefiles into one larger file (because the tiger/line shapefiles are no larger than a single state, and I want multiple states in my rendered image). thanks for any tips or advice, Cory
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