2009/3/13 Akkana Peck <[email protected]>: > I sent an offline response to Richard, he responded and we decided > it might be better to have some of it on the list, so here goes: > > Richard Owlett writes: >> I'm looking for an *outline* map of North America showing national, >> state, and provincial boundaries for U.S. and Canada. >> >> My particular use is assisting someone else to plot some bird migration >> data. I can see the same outline having use for geography lessons from >> primary school thru college. >> >> In the past week I've spent >8 fruitless hours browsing >> www.openstreetmap.org and its wiki. > > The national and US state boundaries are definitely there in > the OSM data: they aren't drawn in the default "Mapnik" view > on openstreetmap.org, but if you click on the + over at the top > right and choose the Osmarender layer you'll see them. > > The trick is displaying them in a nice clean display with all > the rest of the data hidden. And I'm not sure there's any app > that can do that. The big three OSM programs, JOSM, Potlatch > and Merkaartor, are all aimed at editing, not at letting you > turn things off and on to make a nice clean display. > > Maybe your best bet is to set up a web-based view using the OSM > databases, and then you can make stylesheets to show only what you > want. But that's a lot of work.
The default lowzoom cloudmade render is quite nice http://maps.cloudmade.com/?lat=38.959409&lng=-96.064453&zoom=4&styleId=1 I've also quickly made up a blank style for the higher zooms, the border data there looks a bit wonky though http://maps.cloudmade.com/?lat=40.979898&lng=-95.361328&zoom=4&styleId=1440 > I recently needed something similar to what you're asking for > (a US map with state outlines, for an article illustration). > I ended up getting an SVG image of the US from Wikimedia Commons, > editing it in GIMP to get it down to just the state boundaries, > then overlaying a satellite image (also from Wikimedia Commons) > which I had to adjust with the perspective tool to get it to fit > the projection of the SVG image. Using OSM data would have been > a cleaner solution, but lacking an app that can display data > selectively, using GIMP seemed a lot easier and faster. > Yes, manual editing will probably offer the best result. -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
