- Maperitive: it runs on Linux too, and in a few weeks I hope I'll be able to finish the SVG export functionality.<br><br>Regards,<br>Igor<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Gervase Markham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerv-gmane@gerv.net">gerv-gmane@gerv.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br>
<br>
I'd like to render a map of about a square mile or so of the town of<br>
Bromley, in Kent, for the information sheet for my wedding in August (yay!).<br>
<a href="http://osm.org/go/0EEBWURG" target="_blank">http://osm.org/go/0EEBWURG</a><br>
I want to make the map, then remove a few bits which I don't need and<br>
add stuff to it like bigger labels on some important POIs like the<br>
church and the nearest station. I want it to look professional.<br>
<br>
This is just the sort of thing OSM should be good for, or so I hope :-)<br>
<br>
My first effort involved an SVG export of the Mapnik image from the main<br>
website. This is pretty good; the only problem is that the roads are<br>
unnecessarily narrow and so the road names are small and hard to read.<br>
I'd like pretty much that map, except with wider roads and bigger text.<br>
It would take an age to change it all manually in the SVG. What are my<br>
options for a custom render?<br>
<br>
- Mapnik: requires an incredible amount of setup, according to the wiki<br>
page.<br>
<br>
- Osmarender: It's ugly. Sorry, but it is.<br>
<br>
- <a href="http://mapgen.pl" target="_blank">mapgen.pl</a>: Same.<br>
<br>
- Kosmos: I'm on Linux, and it only really runs on Windows.<br>
<br>
- Cobra: development seems dead.<br>
<br>
- Cartagen: It does road labels square on, which I don't like.<br>
<br>
- Cloudmade: initially, this seemed really promising. They have a<br>
variety of styles, and I probably could make<br>
one with wider roads, but the Terms of Service are so long and<br>
complex, and say "don't do anything with this data that isn't your<br>
own personal use" about three times in different ways, so I assume I<br>
can't use it.<br>
<br>
Any ideas? Is there an online service to which one can submit a Mapnik<br>
style sheet and get back a rendering of a small area?<br>
<br>
Gerv<br>
<br>
<br>
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