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<p>I am not surprised they outsource the digital printing aspect of
the operation. This is something current digital printing
companies seem to do really well, considering the boom in custom
"photo album" type services.</p>
<p>As to changes in cartography: looking at my '90's era Landranger
map and comparing it with the current styling of the custom
printed 2017 map, only minor changes have taken place. As
SwissTopo does in their current maps, OS UK also seems to be using
a raster scan of their original hand drawn relief features as an
overlay in the maps. It is clearly not digitally derived.<br>
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"we still lack easy to use render chains designed for print."<br>
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I am in the process of finishing of one for ArcGIS... took me four
years though. Very early results here, cartography pretty outdated
though, I have made significant changes and improvements since then,
and present some more up to date results throughout more recent
posts in the forums:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=26451">https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=26451</a><br>
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"but 1:25k often is a little too large a scale for gaining a quick
overview of an area, and 1:50k often miss detail which is important
for navigation"<br>
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Although scales can be completely arbitrary in ArcGIS, one scale I
designed my custom style for, is also an intermediate 1:37.500
scale. It indeed gives the sweet spot between to small scale for
significant features (1:50k), and to large scale for convenience and
coverage (1:25k).<br>
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Marco<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Op 26-4-2017 om 14:09 schreef SK53:<br>
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<div>AFAIK SplashMaps UK custom maps are now entirely based
on OS data, rather than the original products which used
OS OpenData and OSM. IIRC the original SplashMaps were
1:40k scale, but now they use Explorer maps at 1:25k.<br>
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I think OSGB have now out-sourced their entire 'leisure' map
printing operation (this was always an erroneous title,
plenty of professionals - ecologists, land agents, council
officers - use them on a daily basis).<br>
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I don't know if OSGB have changed their cartography much since
the '90s (probably not v. much for Landranger), but dont be
surprised to see changes akin to those introduced by
SwissTopo.<br>
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<div>Personally, and, still a good reason to support OSM, I'd
like maps at different scales. The Outdoor Leisure Explorers
for Snowdonia are notoriously and uselessly large for
practical use on the hills, but 1:25k often is a little too
large a scale for gaining a quick overview of an area, and
1:50k often miss detail which is important for navigation.
However, we still lack easy to use render chains designed for
print.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 26 April 2017 at 12:53, Marco
Boeringa <span dir="ltr"><<a
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">A bit off
topic I admit, but I just received my first two OS UK custom
maps, with my own chosen print extent. I love it!<br>
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Being custom digital print, the quality does not fully hold
up with my 1990's era "Snowdon & surrounding area"
offset version, but it is still entirely acceptable, and it
is lovely to compare the original map with my custom 1:50k
and 1:25k map and see what has changed (or not). I studied
there for half a year, so know the area quite well.<br>
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Of course I already new the custom map services some of the
OpenStreetMap companies are offering, but I wasn't yet aware
Ordnance Survey was offering such a service for Landranger
(1:50k) and Explorer (1:25k) series maps. Anyone else who
tried it, and possibly found use for it when outdoor mapping
for OpenStreetMap?<br>
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Marco<br>
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