Le Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:24:39 -0300, Rodrigo Avila <[email protected]> a écrit :
> if you have some idea about an announcement text to use in a blog or > something, please let me know before Monday. I want to translate it to post > in my blog and send it to local Brazilian community in the same time you > made the official announcement. You'll find enclosed the announcement text we have prepared. Of course, this is only a proposal, you can adjust it if you want. Thanks! 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
In September 2009, we launched MapOSMatic (http://www.maposmatic.org), a free web service that allows to render on-demand city maps based on OpenStreetMap data. Those city maps, divided by squares, are associated to a street index easing the process of locating a street on the map. We are proud to announce today the launch of a new version of MapOSMatic, which is the result of significant development efforts. Amongst the new features: * The rendering of poster maps is now done on large standard paper formats (A3, A2, A1, etc.), automatically choosen depending on the size of the city, instead of arbitrarily-sized papers that were hard to print. Those poster maps are similar to commercial folded maps; * The capacity of rendering multi-page maps, where the map and street index are split into several pages, for easy printing on regular paper formats (A5, A4, US Letter). Those multi-page maps are similar to commercial city books; * The possibility of choosing between several rendering styles. So far, we provide the standard OpenStreetMap.org style, several styles provided by MapQuest, and a custom style more suitable for printing. In the future, we expect to extend those styles, or even to let users provide their own styles; * The capacity of selecting any city in the world: in the previous versions, we were limited to OpenStreetMap areas of a certain administrative level; * And many, many other smaller features and improvements: quality of the renderings, better user interface to render maps, last OSM database update date printed on the map, etc. MapOSMatic is completely free software, distributed under the terms of the Affero General Public License v3. The project is available through Git repositories, has a mailing-list and an IRC channel. For details, see our About page (http://www.maposmatic.org/about), our wiki (http://wiki.maposmatic.org) and the Savannah project page (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/maposmatic/). In addition to the launch of this new version, we are also starting a donation campaign. The project is completely developed and maintained by volunteers, but we need funding to cover hardware costs and transportations costs to organize the developer meetings during which MapOSMatic improvements are implemented (see our blog at http://news.maposmatic.org). If you appreciate MapOSMatic, do not hesitate to help us by donating through PayPal on http://www.maposmatic.org/donate.
