On 10/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kim Hawtin</b> <<a href="mailto:kim.hawtin@adelaide.edu.au">kim.hawtin@adelaide.edu.au</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
D Tucny wrote:<br>> That said, that's not something that's going to come<br>> in the very near future, so, perhaps an even better idea for your purposes<br>> would be to render the area yourself with as much details as you want at
<br>> whatever scale you want, it's not that difficult to do, then you could have<br>> it printed, have the image hosted somewhere etc.<br><br>Just how would one go about rendering off an area and stitching it up to
<br>print off?</blockquote><div><br>For an area that's not too big, e.g. a reasonable size city, the easiest way would be to get the data as an OSM file, either from the API, e.g. using josm then saving the osm file, or extracted from the planet file using one of tools that will extract data within a bounding box... next step would be to set up osmarender, see
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmarender">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmarender</a> it's not too difficult, even on Windows... you then run it against your osm file and it'll make an svg file... I'd typically run it like this...
<br><br>c:\xml\xml tr osmarender.xsl rules/osm-map-features-z17.xml >map.svg<br>perl lines2curves.pl map.svg >curvymap.svg<br></div><br>The first line runs the transformation using osmarender's xsl and the template for zoom 17,
i.e. maximum detail, you might not want this, so you could use the other zoom level templates<br>The second bit is running the lines2curves script to make curves curvy rather than angled, if you don't want that, you don't need to do it...
<br><br>Once you have the svg file, you can just open it in Inkscape and export as whatever image format you want, or print... <br><br>For significantly larger areas, the use of osmxapi to get filtered data might be more useful, but, depending on size of the area and, more importantly, the amount of data, you may have trouble rendering it. There are number of ways to proceed, but all somewhat trickier to achieve than
<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm aiming to print off a map for a miniconf I am working on, so that all<br>the groups can lay up where they are from, etc ...
<br><br>Also we're looking at mapping out the area around the the conference and<br>making making a video playback of the gps trails of folks tavels... I've<br>seen some up on youtube, any ideas about how that is done?
</blockquote><div><br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Party_render">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Party_render</a> has some examples of rendering the tracks, I'm sure there are other tools too, check out the wiki anyway...
<br></div><br>Hope this helps...<br><br>d<br></div>