Re: [OSM-talk] Printed map books

2012-02-25 Thread OJ W
Howdy all. Good to see the PdfAtlas idea being revived (especially now that rendering libraries have improved!) -- if any of its ideas are still relevant then the original author might still be around to thank you for your efforts to get this ideal working! ;) [yes the software itself will be

Re: [OSM-talk] Printed map books

2012-02-23 Thread Graham Jones
:* Steve Bennett; talk@openstreetmap.org *Subject:* Re: RE: [OSM-talk] Printed map books ** ** My townguide python script does that - it uses a library to put the mapnik generated images onto pdf pages along with other text. from my phone On 19 Feb 2012 09:37, Paul Norman penor

Re: [OSM-talk] Printed map books

2012-02-23 Thread Paul Norman
. It's good to hear that it works for someone else. From: Graham Jones [mailto:grahamjones...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 12:38 PM To: Paul Norman Cc: Steve Bennett; talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: RE: [OSM-talk] Printed map books Hi Paul, This is very good. I had

Re: [OSM-talk] Printed map books

2012-02-21 Thread Paul Norman
to look in that direction - An index page at the front - The ability to skip maps From: Graham Jones [mailto:grahamjones...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 2:50 AM To: Paul Norman Cc: Steve Bennett; talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: RE: [OSM-talk] Printed map books

Re: [OSM-talk] Printed map books

2012-02-21 Thread David Fawcett
[mailto:grahamjones...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 2:50 AM To: Paul Norman Cc: Steve Bennett; talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: RE: [OSM-talk] Printed map books My townguide python script does that - it uses a library to put the mapnik generated images onto pdf pages along

Re: [OSM-talk] Printed map books

2012-02-21 Thread Graham Jones
[mailto:grahamjones...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Sunday, February 19, 2012 2:50 AM *To:* Paul Norman *Cc:* Steve Bennett; talk@openstreetmap.org *Subject:* Re: RE: [OSM-talk] Printed map books My townguide python script does that - it uses a library to put the mapnik generated images ont

[OSM-talk] Printed map books

2012-02-19 Thread Paul Norman
In my car I still use a printed map book, which I'd like to replace with one using OSM data and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. The features I consider requirements are - Tiled pages with an index map at the front of the book - Arrows on each page indicating the number of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Printed map books

2012-02-19 Thread Thomas Davie
I had vaguely considered this as something that could be done with OpenStreetPad. It ought to be pretty easy with its rendering architecture to get OS X to output a PDF document instead of some pretty images on the screen. If you're able to hack on an obj-c project then it could be a good

Re: [OSM-talk] Printed map books

2012-02-19 Thread Steve Bennett
Hi Paul, I asked about this a while ago on the thread Generating a street directory from OSM? and got some good answers. Some relevant links that came up: http://code.google.com/p/townguide http://www.townguide.webhop.net/ http://www.maposmatic.org Steve On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Paul

Re: [OSM-talk] Printed map books

2012-02-19 Thread Graham Jones
Hi, The two 'townguide' ones are mine, but the demonstration web service at townguide.webhop.net is not working, sorry (had a little disk crash a year ago, and never quite got around to putting it back together...) Getting a nice printable booklet working has been on my todo list for ages - there

Re: [OSM-talk] Printed map books

2012-02-19 Thread sabas88
Hi, I tried to use Hikingbook.pl[0] by Gary68, but I wasn't successful (I wanted to use it together with his next project, Mapweaver) I saw also Osmbook[1] but was limited in rendering. Regards, Stefano [0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hikingbook.pl

Re: [OSM-talk] Printed map books

2012-02-19 Thread Paul Norman
the PDFs from the command line? From: Graham Jones [mailto:grahamjones...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 1:08 AM To: Steve Bennett Cc: Paul Norman; talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Printed map books Hi, The two 'townguide' ones are mine, but the demonstration web

Re: [OSM-talk] Printed map books

2012-02-19 Thread Graham Jones
[mailto:grahamjones...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Sunday, February 19, 2012 1:08 AM *To:* Steve Bennett *Cc:* Paul Norman; talk@openstreetmap.org *Subject:* Re: [OSM-talk] Printed map books Hi, The two 'townguide' ones are mine, but the demonstration web service at townguide.webhop.n