Re: [OSM-talk-be] how to create a 'ready-to-print' city map from OSM

2019-03-06 Thread Julien Minet
Hello Nadia, >From what I know, I'd advice QGIS or Mapnik. 1) QGIS You can import OSM data in QGIS with many ways: - import data in a postgresql/postgis db with osm2pgsql or imposm and use the postgresql/postgis layers - use the quickOSM plugin - use the shp from

Re: [OSM-talk-be] how to create a 'ready-to-print' city map from OSM

2019-03-06 Thread Marc Gemis
As Jo wrote labelling will be difficult. Did you consider to create 2 maps, one in French and one in Dutch? (and perhaps one in German). Is there a particular reason to create a bi-lingual map? m. On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 9:53 AM PONCELET Nadia (Firebru) wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I would

Re: [OSM-talk-be] how to create a 'ready-to-print' city map from OSM

2019-03-06 Thread Jo
I tried to get started on something like that: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Polyglot/diary/47876 QGIS 3 allows to move very quickly for the inital steps, but of course defining a style that you are happy with is going to take a while. In OpenStreetMap we expand all abbreviations on

Re: [OSM-talk-be] how to create a 'ready-to-print' city map from OSM

2019-03-06 Thread Karel Adams
Technisch gezien lijkt me dit niet al te moeilijk. Gebied selecteren, betreffende gegevens ophalen via bv. overpass, postscriptje uit breien, ps2pdf en kees komt klaar :) En jawel, een beetje tricky met name vs. name:nl vs.name:fr maar niet onoverkomelijk, zolang ik er niet al te diep over

[OSM-talk-be] how to create a 'ready-to-print' city map from OSM

2019-03-06 Thread PONCELET Nadia (Firebru)
Hello everyone, I would like to create some map from OSM that could be printed on paper at the approximate scale of 1:5000 and where all street names would appear on the map and be easy to read. This is quite tricky I think, especially for Brussels where street names usually have a french and