[OSM-dev] Printing the slippy map

Andy Robinson (blackadder) blackadderajr at googlemail.com
Sun Apr 20 11:56:50 BST 2008


Tom Hughes wrote:
>Sent: 20 April 2008 9:48 AM
>To: dev at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Printing the slippy map
>
>In message <f435a4690804200128l2cf2a79fn14d10ec90740f66e at mail.gmail.com>
>          "Andy Robinson" <blackadderajr at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, maybe you couldgive the new Export tab a try. Appeared the first
>> time for me when I gust opened the OSM homepage. Its been a long time
>> in the making but I'm really pleased to see it there. Thanks to all
>> who have got this coded and working.
>>
>> Since the original post was about copyright, what is the status of
>> getting copyright/OSM image or something on the exported images?
>
>In general? Incredibly hard. As far as the mapnik export goes you
>would have to add some functionality to mapnik I think to allow you
>to do it. I would have to leave a T at H person to comment on how hard
>it is to make MapOf do it.
>
>Printing the home page at the moment very deliberately puts the
>copyright notice underneath to avoid polluting the image with it
>so I'd rather not start doing so on the export...
>
>I can make the license information in the side panel show for image
>export as well if you like? Currently it only shows for the XML export.
>

Tom, thanks for the feedback.

I'll bring this up with Richard and Steve with respect to licence issues.
Pointless doing one thing if another is the preferred way under any proposed
licence change.

Cheers

Andy

>Tom
>
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