On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Peter Childs <pchi...@bcs.org> wrote: > I'm thinking web based script that produced pdf files of OSM would be > really really good, Possibly rendering direct to PDF (which is > actually a vector based format) > > Possibly done so the scale was correct on each page rather than trying > to fit a globe on a bit of paper. (Like a big road map) and we don't > end up with page after page of blue sea. > > I'm thinking php can produce pdfs quite well so why not.
you might want to look at the python bindings and scripts (e.g: http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/mapnik/generate_image.py) which can easily generate PDF using pycairo rather than the raster image output. > If done well, we could then send the pdf to a printer and get it > published. I'm thinking a published Road Atlas sitting on the book > shelf next the the RAC and AA versions would be rather impressive. > (and a good money spinner to boot) i've found that printers often prefer high resolution images over PDFs, but these are also pretty easy to generate. for the mappa mercia A0 print [1] it looks like 9934 x 14046 (300dpi) was a good resolution. cheers, matt [1] http://blog.mappa-mercia.org/2009/03/birmingham-solihull-map-now-in-print.html _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
