On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 15:45 -0500, Cory Forsyth wrote: > 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).
Mapnik would be able to do it however you may find that Viking[1] is easier. Assuming you have your route as a GPX file then you can load it into viking, add a map layer and then ask it to generate an image to a file (File->Generate Image File). You may need to fiddle with the dimensions and the zoom level to get the level of detail you want. Jon 1: http://viking.sf.net/ _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
