Thanks for the responses Thomas and David. This sounds like something people want but doesn't yet exist. When the project gets further along on my end I'll see what development resources I can get to tackle this side of things. If the MapOSMatic devs cannot contribute code, will I be able to count on you guys for guidance/support?
-Samuel On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Thomas Petazzoni <[email protected] > wrote: > Hello Samuel, > > Le Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:14:15 -0700, > Samuel Mandell <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > This is close. The only paper size option I get is "Best fit" which > > in this case is (64 x 127.1 cm2) which is pretty big. What the > > project needs is being able to select a page size like A4 or A6 (or > > just decide on one) and then divide the map into chunks of that size. > > The other part is having the index be on separate pages. This > > increases the complexity in two ways: > > > > 1. You have to now lay out the map on A4 sized chunks and then > > split them up. This will mean that you'll get a little extra of the > > map than you need 2. The index will need a new dimension which is the > > page. So the index of a street would be page, x-axis, y-axis > > Generating such a booklet format is definitely on our TODO-list, and > dev.maposmatic.org has the infrastructure to provide user-selected > formats. However, we haven't had the time to write the booklet > generator yet. We welcome patches, of course :-) > > Best regards, > > Thomas > -- > Thomas Petazzoni http://thomas.enix.org > MapOSMatic http://www.maposmatic.org > Logiciels Libres à Toulouse http://www.toulibre.org > Embedded Linux http://www.free-electrons.com >
