> Am 17.07.2021 um 12:45 schrieb Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl>: > > On 7/17/2021 12:20 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: >>> Am 17.07.2021 um 11:53 schrieb Bruce Horrocks <n...@scorecrow.com>: >>> >>> >>> >>>> On 16 Jul 2021, at 20:55, Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 7/15/2021 10:30 PM, Bruce Horrocks wrote: >>>>> On 15 Jul 2021, at 18:58, Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I was wondering about that too. I admit that I looked into maps years >>>>>> ago but never could find quality data files. >>>>> Does this help? >>>>> <https://www.naturalearthdata.com> >>>> i was halfway writing as reader for that fiel format when i noticed that >>>> is is also quite low res so i gave up on that and started playing >>>> (extending) with an more interesting alternative that mojca and i wrote >>>> years ago at a meeting >>> >>> Off the top of my head I'm not aware of any higher resolution sources of >>> global data - what scale were you thinking of? >> Can you work with OpenStreetMap data? >> https://planet.openstreetmap.org >> http://download.geofabrik.de >> https://download.bbbike.org/osm/ >> I didn’t find excerpts that only have e.g. country borders or rivers. But >> with usual XML tools you could extract those. > Indeed, that is what I was referring too. Mojca found this: > https://osm-boundaries.com/
Ah, our mails crossed... > At a bachotex meeting (years ago, when the ctx group donated a nice roadmap > display to the conference) we made an openstreetmap -> metapost style but > afaik that never made it into a module. So, when I remembered that I updated > it. I can now render my hometown (need to figure out colors) quite okay. (One > can export an osm file in openstreetmap but with some limitations on size.) > > I have to play a bit more with the style before I define it useable but the > interface is liek this: > > % where i live > > \startMPpage > draw lmt_openstreetmap [ > filename = "hasselt.osm" > grid = "dots", > ] ; > \stopMPpage > > % island in paris > > \startMPpage > draw lmt_openstreetmap [ > filename = "e:/tmp/map.osm" > ] ; > \stopMPpage > > The hasselt osm file is sime 12 MB, the colorful hasselt pdf file just below > 1 MB so that's okay (3.7 sec processing time on my machine so if all claims > are right sub seconds on a fast new apple). > > Of course I need to make colors and what gets rendered configurable (via the > interface). It's more about the fun aspect .. no need to typeset complete > routes because that's what the web is for. For our architectural guides I make maps with OSM data and Maperitive. It’s a PITA (sooo slow with Mono on OSX and hadly documented), but works. Maperitive uses "mrules" style files (example attached). [call] mono --desktop Maperitive/Maperitive.Console.exe -defaultscript=false ../baukultur.mscript inkscape -z -f citymap.svgz -A citymap.pdf [baukultur.mscript] set-setting name=map.decoration.attribution value=false set-setting name=map.decoration.grid value=false set-setting name=map.decoration.scale value=false set-setting name=map.rendering.font-family value="AlegreyaSans" use-ruleset location=Maperitive/Rules/baukultur.mrules // load some additional data, e.g. markers load-source archiguide.osm // exported OSM city map load-source bonn.osm // Stadthalle BG move-pos y=50.68064 x=7.15849 zoom=17 set-home set-geo-bounds 7.153,50.6840,7.162,50.6772 set-print-bounds-geo 7.153,50.6840,7.162,50.6772 export-svg file=citymap.svgz compatibility=inkscape map-scale=5000 Hraban
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