Fantastic..... ! Great work.<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">David Earl</b> <<a href="mailto:david@frankieandshadow.com">david@frankieandshadow.com
</a>><br>Date: Jan 30, 2007 8:43 PM<br>Subject: [OSM-talk] Cambridge map<br>To: OSM <<a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a>><br><br></span>If anyone is interested, I have now prepared a Cambridge map for printing
<br>onto A1. It was a tortuous process! I tried various routes, but all of the<br>ones that went via an image went wrong at some point because of the huge<br>file sizes (e.g. Photoshop can't read Inkscape's PNGs properly when over a
<br>certain size), and it is mightily slow even with 2Gb of RAM). So in the end<br>I made a (vector) PDF: run osmarender; convert to EPS using Inkscape (having<br>set page size to content); hand edit EPS to work round an Inkscape font bug;
<br>import EPS into InDesign (this gives me an easy way to tile the image so I<br>can test printing here at home); and export as PDF from InDesign.<br><br>The PDF file (7Mb) is at<br> <a href="http://www.frankieandshadow.com/dl?f=OSM&p=4591">
http://www.frankieandshadow.com/dl?f=OSM&p=4591</a><br>and if anyone wants to pick up the added SVG icons and so on, the<br>osm-map-features file is there too.<br><br>North is at the right just to make it easier to print on portrait paper.
<br><br>The text is very tiny even when the City is done A1. It's made worse by<br>inkscape converting street names to paths - if it were still characters in<br>the PDF, the RIP could print them them more finely when printed. As it is I
<br>had to make the text 50% bigger, and remove the white strokes round the<br>characters to make it work.<br><br>However, of interest is that I amended the osm-map-features file to render<br>lots of things it didn't - various SVG icons, names that didn't previously
<br>show up and so on (see below).<br><br>node: windmill (icon); school (icon+name); pharmacy (ditto); doctors<br>(ditto); university (ditto - essential for Cambridge!); landuse=retail<br>(name); supermarket (name); traffic_signals (icon); mini_roundabout (icon);
<br>theatre (icon+name); cinema (ditto); parking (name);<br>landuse=residential|industrial|commercial (name); post_office (name);<br>bus_station (icon+name)<br><br>area: school (mauve); military (red); allotments(brown);<br>
recreation_ground(green);<br><br>way: cycleway and footway names (there are many such with names in<br>Cambridge)<br><br>I also put cycleways (vital for Cambridge) and footways on top: mainly<br>because a lot of the detail in these was simply obliterated by junctions.
<br>They do tend to protrude into roads on this rendering, but the overall<br>rendering was better IMO. I also switched red for green for primary and<br>trunk, and made post_box a smaller and green green letter icon to<br>
distinguish from PO's and make them less prominent.<br><br>I didn't bother with all the name directions, though I did do some of the<br>more obvious ones. So long as osmarender clips names they're badly messed up
<br>anyway in a way I can't do anything about.<br><br>Enjoy,<br>David<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a>
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