maposmatic is a good place to start: http://www.maposmatic.org
walkingpapers has some overview map thingie as well http://www.walking-papers.org/ On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > Wondered if anyone has ever put effort into producing a street > directory from OSM data. For those in places where they're not common, > a street directory is a bound book with numbered maps covering a city, > at various scales. On the borders of each page are indications to the > map that joins it (eg, "Joins map 53"). There are typically overview > maps at the front, covering the whole city in two pages, and some > touring maps at the end, covering the state or country, at very low > detail. Sometimes there are special pages covering certain parts of > the city at extra high zoom, like the CBD, universities, etc. > Different formats suit different purposes: I have a Melway (roughly > A4) and a much smaller UBD which can be held open in one hand (and > consequently has hundreds of pages). > > Anyway it seemed like there would be some interesting technical > challenges in producing such a thing, and making software to allow > anyone to do this for their own city. Has anyone had a go? > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
