You actually get a lot of control but it isn't user friendly out of the box. I've done a write up here on how to run it from a .bat file and you can edit the rules off line with this method.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maperitive#How_to Cheerio John On 6 June 2010 10:44, Gervase Markham <gerv-gm...@gerv.net> wrote: > On 06/06/10 13:52, Seventy 7 wrote: > > Yes, Maperitive would be ideal. Although the SVG export is not yet done, > > quality (ie large) bitmaps can be done with a "scale" command to smooth > > out pixellation. > > I got as far as getting it running (it needs System.Window.Forms; on > Ubuntu, run > sudo apt-get install libmono-winforms* > ) and managed, through typing "zoom-out" and "zoom-in" about 50 times > each, to get to the right area of the map, and downloaded the OSM data. > But, not wanting to knock the hard work of you or others, even before I > looked at making style changes, it seemed fairly clear that the text > rendering wasn't nearly as nice as Mapnik's. > > I'm developing a whole new appreciation of how hard it is to write a map > renderer which produces beautiful maps! > > > You might also like to have a look at Maposmatic > > http://www.maposmatic.org/ as it has SVG export. > > That seems just to produce SVG of the default Mapnik style, which I can > already get from http://www.openstreetmap.org/. > > Gerv > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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