One more thing. Does anyone have a way of generating a map key from a carto style? Otherwise I might have to write something.
Cheers Graham On 2 Apr 2017 17:21, "Graham Jones" <grahamjones...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you all for your suggestions. > It is all coming back to me slowly now.... > > I decided to have a go at a large scale monochrome outdoor map. Two > reasons for this: > > 1. I want to use it as a background to show the route of a race, so I > can show the route as a coloured overlay and it will show up nicely. > 2. I am colourblind and struggle if he difference between features is > colour, so I want the difference to be line weight or pattern instead - I > can imagine using this for a printed outdoor map for me to use. > > Have based it on Greg's work (because it is easier to start out simple so > I understand what I am doing, and he has got the OS projection working > nicely), adding in features as I realise I need them, plagiarising Andy's > code when necessary (I will update the credits in the README) > > It is stored here if anyone is interested: > https://github.com/jones139/gb-leisure-carto (mine are the style files > with the '-mono' suffix - it is now so different to Greg's that I should > maybe change its name, unless Greg would like a mono map too?) > > you can see what it looks like here: > https://github.com/jones139/gb-leisure-carto/blob/master/ > gb-leisure-mono.png > (this gives a scale of about 1:12500 when printed on A4. > > The style currently does the area I was interested in ok (although I am > minded to make walls and hedges use a pattern rather than a simple line), > but I am sure there are important features missing when I look at a > different area, so it is a long way of finished. > > Thanks again for your help. > > Graham. >
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