<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Folks, what did we have in place to produce map books?<br><br>Can Mapsomatic easily be modified for different formats/scales?<br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.safety-maps.org/">http://www.safety-maps.org/</a> was a recent project to do something similar. I know the developers would be interested to hear more ideas how to make it useful.</span><br><div> </div>== Mikel Maron ==<br>+14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron<div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">----- Forwarded Message ----<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Richard Weait <richard@weait.com><br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">To:</span></b> Samuel Mandell <shmandell@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> talk@openstreetmap.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, June 6, 2011 4:16:08 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSM-talk] Disaster Preparedness Project<br></font><br>
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Samuel Mandell <<a ymailto="mailto:shmandell@gmail.com" href="mailto:shmandell@gmail.com">shmandell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I'm designing a project whose goal is to prepare folks in my community for<br>> disasters. An essential part of any disaster kit are maps of the local area<br>> so that when electricity has gone out people can still navigate to specific<br>> areas of the city (for instance to get supplies or medical help).<br>> OpenStreetMap has comprehensive map data for my area (the San Francisco Bay<br>> Area) and I'd like to use the mapping data to create maps for the various<br>> cities to hand-out to residents. Since I'd need detailed (1:4800) of an<br>> entire city I haven't been able to use the export tool since it seems to<br>> have some built in limits to how large of an image it will generate (which<br>> makes sense). For Mountain View, CA the image size
we'd want to generate is<br>> around 9409 x 11310 with a 1:4800 scale, in other words, very large. We<br>> would then cut this into smaller squares and print it out in a booklet with<br>> attribution to OpenStreetMap for the data and visuals.<br>> What's the best way for us to generate these detailed maps of the various<br>> cities?<br><br>Well that sounds awesome.<br><br>You might try downloading an extract of OSM data for that area. You<br>should be able to find an extract that deals with California, or the<br>US West. That way you don't have to deal with an entire planet full<br>of data. Then use Mapnik or one of the other rendering tools to<br>generate your map. You'll likely want to adjust the style sheet to<br>make it just right for emergency awareness.<br><br>There is a company in SF area experienced in printing high resolution<br>maps from OSM data. Perhaps they'll do it for you for free
since it is<br>such a worthy project?<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a></span><br></div></div>
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