Re: [OSM-talk] Custom paper map templates
Hi thanks, On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Graham Jones grahamjones...@googlemail.com wrote: Sam, It is probably worth a look at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_on_Paper if you haven't seen it. http://www.ancalime.de/gutau.html Seems to be a little closer, but it would just need an OpenOffice Draw file. (so then i can easily move the boxes around), edit icons and change labels. This is more of the creative side, where software cant make that happen. (the reason why, is that today i passed somone who was looking at a map, and it 'could' have used OSM, only the city outline was missing, (hopefully we'll get that in this year), but it was just the page layout that was different. Many different printable maps can be made with the same basic layout. (ie. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Compass_Rose#compass-rose-basic-thin-letters) having them all in 1 Oo Draw template file. MapOsMatic http://www.maposmatic.org produces very nice output with a street index, but you can not alter the output from the default style. Townguidehttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TownGuideis similar but adds selectable points of interest, but its output resolution is not as high, so the maps do not look as nice. However one of this year's Google Summer of Code projectshttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2010/AcceptedProjectsis looking at taking the best aspects of these projects to improve it and add more features. (ie,. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2010/AcceptedProjects/EasyPrintableMaps) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenPaperMaps Good luck on those projects, i hope they chose to share what they make :) Regards Cool, That gives me some ideas, and looks like http://www.ancalime.de/gutau.html is ccBYsa, so that helps too. Thanks, Sam Graham On 13 May 2010 22:53, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm just wondering who all is working on making custom map templates? Walking-papers.org are great, but is only 1 style. I'm making Oo Draw files that just have the page layout, and all the basic map info, (legend, scale, title, directory, copyright line, border. # markers) The Mapgen.pl is for getting the osm map details out into SVG. So the ideas is that Oo is simpler to use than Inkscape, where simple 'prntScrn' can be done, where the monitor resolution is greater or equal to the actual page size. The purpose is to be able to print out free maps and give to any place that will make it available. So im looking for/making templates for cyclists passing through town/ walkers looking for tourist attractions / pub 'inspectors' looking for pubs. And many other templates, were its easy to move the legend around and draw arrows add in custom place markers. Is there a wiki page that organizes this info around? Thanks, Sam -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org @Acrosscanadatrails ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- Dr. Graham Jones Hartlepool, UK email: grahamjones...@gmail.com ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Custom paper map templates
Hi Sam, Sorry, I think I missed the point of your question - I thought you wanted something automatic to save having to move things manually. When I have just wanted a quick map with a few additions I have just used osmarender and inkscape (I actually use the perl version of osmrender because it seems to work more quickly for me). I think I turned the osmarender SVG file into a png 'canvas' to draw on. Can OpenOffice not read the SVG files to let you do the same? Graham. On 14 May 2010 07:09, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi thanks, On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Graham Jones grahamjones...@googlemail.com wrote: Sam, It is probably worth a look at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_on_Paper if you haven't seen it. http://www.ancalime.de/gutau.html Seems to be a little closer, but it would just need an OpenOffice Draw file. (so then i can easily move the boxes around), edit icons and change labels. This is more of the creative side, where software cant make that happen. (the reason why, is that today i passed somone who was looking at a map, and it 'could' have used OSM, only the city outline was missing, (hopefully we'll get that in this year), but it was just the page layout that was different. Many different printable maps can be made with the same basic layout. (ie. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Compass_Rose#compass-rose-basic-thin-letters) having them all in 1 Oo Draw template file. MapOsMatic http://www.maposmatic.org produces very nice output with a street index, but you can not alter the output from the default style. Townguidehttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TownGuideis similar but adds selectable points of interest, but its output resolution is not as high, so the maps do not look as nice. However one of this year's Google Summer of Code projectshttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2010/AcceptedProjectsis looking at taking the best aspects of these projects to improve it and add more features. (ie,. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2010/AcceptedProjects/EasyPrintableMaps) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenPaperMaps Good luck on those projects, i hope they chose to share what they make :) Regards Cool, That gives me some ideas, and looks like http://www.ancalime.de/gutau.html is ccBYsa, so that helps too. Thanks, Sam Graham On 13 May 2010 22:53, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm just wondering who all is working on making custom map templates? Walking-papers.org are great, but is only 1 style. I'm making Oo Draw files that just have the page layout, and all the basic map info, (legend, scale, title, directory, copyright line, border. # markers) The Mapgen.pl is for getting the osm map details out into SVG. So the ideas is that Oo is simpler to use than Inkscape, where simple 'prntScrn' can be done, where the monitor resolution is greater or equal to the actual page size. The purpose is to be able to print out free maps and give to any place that will make it available. So im looking for/making templates for cyclists passing through town/ walkers looking for tourist attractions / pub 'inspectors' looking for pubs. And many other templates, were its easy to move the legend around and draw arrows add in custom place markers. Is there a wiki page that organizes this info around? Thanks, Sam -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org @Acrosscanadatrails ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- Dr. Graham Jones Hartlepool, UK email: grahamjones...@gmail.com -- Dr. Graham Jones Hartlepool, UK email: grahamjones...@gmail.com ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Custom paper map templates
Hi all, I'm just wondering who all is working on making custom map templates? Walking-papers.org are great, but is only 1 style. I'm making Oo Draw files that just have the page layout, and all the basic map info, (legend, scale, title, directory, copyright line, border. # markers) The Mapgen.pl is for getting the osm map details out into SVG. So the ideas is that Oo is simpler to use than Inkscape, where simple 'prntScrn' can be done, where the monitor resolution is greater or equal to the actual page size. The purpose is to be able to print out free maps and give to any place that will make it available. So im looking for/making templates for cyclists passing through town/ walkers looking for tourist attractions / pub 'inspectors' looking for pubs. And many other templates, were its easy to move the legend around and draw arrows add in custom place markers. Is there a wiki page that organizes this info around? Thanks, Sam -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org @Acrosscanadatrails ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Custom paper map templates
Sam, It is probably worth a look at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_on_Paper if you haven't seen it. MapOsMatic http://www.maposmatic.org produces very nice output with a street index, but you can not alter the output from the default style. Townguidehttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TownGuideis similar but adds selectable points of interest, but its output resolution is not as high, so the maps do not look as nice. However one of this year's Google Summer of Code projectshttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2010/AcceptedProjectsis looking at taking the best aspects of these projects to improve it and add more features. Regards Graham On 13 May 2010 22:53, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm just wondering who all is working on making custom map templates? Walking-papers.org are great, but is only 1 style. I'm making Oo Draw files that just have the page layout, and all the basic map info, (legend, scale, title, directory, copyright line, border. # markers) The Mapgen.pl is for getting the osm map details out into SVG. So the ideas is that Oo is simpler to use than Inkscape, where simple 'prntScrn' can be done, where the monitor resolution is greater or equal to the actual page size. The purpose is to be able to print out free maps and give to any place that will make it available. So im looking for/making templates for cyclists passing through town/ walkers looking for tourist attractions / pub 'inspectors' looking for pubs. And many other templates, were its easy to move the legend around and draw arrows add in custom place markers. Is there a wiki page that organizes this info around? Thanks, Sam -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org @Acrosscanadatrails ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- Dr. Graham Jones Hartlepool, UK email: grahamjones...@gmail.com ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
