Re: [Talk-GB] Ways to get a big image of the world?

2015-07-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 07/06/2015 10:48 AM, Filip Chirita Rares Cristian wrote: I want to get an A0 poster of the world for my room up and OSM seems like the best choice, really. There's two large PNG download links on http://fred.dev.openstreetmap.org/lowzoom/ - probably not exactly what you want because

Re: [Talk-GB] Ways to get a big image of the world?

2015-07-09 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
Hi again, I found 90% of what I wanted, and that's this little gem: http://print.mapwebbing.eu/printcomposer It allowed me to create an A0 world map and download it in like 30 seconds. The only things I could want more would be to have all the city names be in English and be able to change the

Re: [Talk-GB] Ways to get a big image of the world?

2015-07-06 Thread Steven Horner
Hello, Have you looked at using QGIS and the OpenLayers plugin. You should be able to use the OpenStreetMap layer and create a new Composer of any size you like. QGIS used to not like using Tile sources to create print outs but it did just work with an internal tile server, it did give a warning

[Talk-GB] Ways to get a big image of the world?

2015-07-06 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
Hi everyone, Long time no talk. I have a question: is there any easy (does not require programming) of getting an OSM render of an area of my choice to *any* size? I want to get an A0 poster of the world for my room up and OSM seems like the best choice, really. Let me know if you know of

Re: [Talk-GB] Ways to get a big image of the world?

2015-07-06 Thread Marc Gemis
Did you look at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_on_Paper ? There is also http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bigmap, which is also mentioned on https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/22/how-do-i-export-map-images-of-larger-areas I hope you find a tool suitable for you. regards m On

Re: [Talk-GB] Ways to get a big image of the world?

2015-07-06 Thread Filip Chirita Rares Cristian
Hi, Steven, thank you for the suggestion. I'm installing QGIS now but I've never used it before. Marc, yes. I mentioned that page in my initial email. I can't seem to get Bigmap to work :( Regards, Rares On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com wrote: Did you look at