Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Printing the slippy map
Hi, > A quick interface request: Can we put PDF at the top of the list, as > it's the most universally understood vector format, followed by SVG, On a side note - the SVG rendered much faster in Inkscape than the PDF in Acroread! > We don't want people to download screen resolution maps, > print them and say that on-line maps aren't as good as real paper ones > just because they are first on the list. The good thing about the bitmaps is that you can get them in much higher resolutions than "screen". Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Printing the slippy map
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Robert (Jamie) Munro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Longer term, it would be great if the PDF version let you select a paper > size and orientation and made the map whatever scale was needed to fit > it. As someone else said, it would be good if /this/ full page map had > attribution etc. on it, but I wouldn't put the attribution on other > formats of map - they are for building on and inclduing into larger > documents, and the copyright needs to be added as appropriate to those > documents. It's not very easy to work out unfortunately, and in particular there are issues with the fact that mapnik assumes 96 DPI while the postscript and PDF output should really be 72 DPI so at the moment mapnik probably is producing quite the scale you think it is when you render to those types. > A quick interface request: Can we put PDF at the top of the list, as > it's the most universally understood vector format, followed by SVG, > then Postscript, then leave the raster formats (PNG and especially JPEG) > at the bottom. We don't want people to download screen resolution maps, > print them and say that on-line maps aren't as good as real paper ones > just because they are first on the list. I'm reluctant to do that at the moment because there are various issues with the PDF output that make it non-optimal as a default in many cases. Specifically there is a rendering bug with the one way arrows in evince (just reported) and the maps can be very slow to render especially (once I've turned on clipping which I plan to do) if you're using evince with cairo 1.4 which most linux distros will be at the moment. Also, until mapnik support vector symbols, the PDF maps don't actually scale that well as the symbols start to look very blocky as you zoom in. > Will the postscript output work as an EPS? If so, could we call it EPS > as that's a filetype graphic designer types will recognise. I don't know if it will function as EPS as is - cairo 1.6 has explicit support for EPS but the python bindings don't seem to support it yet so I can't easily offer it. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Printing the slippy map
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy Robinson wrote: | Well, maybe you couldgive the new Export tab a try. Appeared the first | time for me when I gust opened the OSM homepage. Its been a long time | in the making but I'm really pleased to see it there. Thanks to all | who have got this coded and working. This is fantastic. It instantly shows to people the difference between us and the other on-line maps. The PDF mode is especially great as it means anyone can see and print a vector map instantly. I think it deserves a proper press release from the foundation. Longer term, it would be great if the PDF version let you select a paper size and orientation and made the map whatever scale was needed to fit it. As someone else said, it would be good if /this/ full page map had attribution etc. on it, but I wouldn't put the attribution on other formats of map - they are for building on and inclduing into larger documents, and the copyright needs to be added as appropriate to those documents. It's probably possible to add the copyright after the PDF has been made using ghostscript or something similar, if it's not easy to get Mapnik to add it. A quick interface request: Can we put PDF at the top of the list, as it's the most universally understood vector format, followed by SVG, then Postscript, then leave the raster formats (PNG and especially JPEG) at the bottom. We don't want people to download screen resolution maps, print them and say that on-line maps aren't as good as real paper ones just because they are first on the list. Will the postscript output work as an EPS? If so, could we call it EPS as that's a filetype graphic designer types will recognise. But again: Nice work!!! Robert (Jamie) Munro -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFICxnzz+aYVHdncI0RAgDxAKDUmmj22EI7v5JgcvPqNcVxmmLRFACdEYrC XPUFPvlpahp/6uK2xnCOZhA= =lpLs -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Printing the slippy map
Well, maybe you couldgive the new Export tab a try. Appeared the first time for me when I gust opened the OSM homepage. Its been a long time in the making but I'm really pleased to see it there. Thanks to all who have got this coded and working. Since the original post was about copyright, what is the status of getting copyright/OSM image or something on the exported images? Cheers Andy On 20/04/2008, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > When I print a map from www.openstreetmap.org in Firefox on Linux in > > portrait form, I get one page with a map, and a second (wasted) page > > with the copyright notice. > > > I have completely given up trying to print all kinds of slippy maps, > it never works out the way I want it. I use something like > bigmap/MapOf to make a large bitmap and print that. > > Bye > Frederik > > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > > > ___ > dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev > -- Andy Robinson ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
