[HOT] [OSM-talk] Fw: Disaster Preparedness Project
Jean-Guilhem Cailton
jgc at arkemie.com
Tue Jun 7 11:08:25 BST 2011
Hi,
After the recent flood in Haut-Richelieu, Québec, and the request to use
MapOSMatic in this context, it happens that I met Thomas, one of the
developers of MapOSMatic.
When I had asked about this functionality of map booklet, he had told me
that they had started working on this (or on features that would make
this easier, I don't remember exactly) during the Hackfest last August.
Maybe coordinating efforts on this would be the best way to move forward?
By the way, he also told me that he had sent an email reply, that
apparently was moderated on lists he is not a member of, and that I have
not seen. He explained that there was still a lag in the database
updates (after the MapOSMatic database had been down).
About the mapping of a specific area defined by a relation (not
necessarily a city), it might be not be too far from what is done with
administrative boundary ways, but would require a mean to transmit or
specify the desired area.
Anyway Samuel, I invite you to have a look at http://www.maposmatic.org
if you have not already (there seems to be a problem at the moment with
a job over Berlin, hopefully not for long).
Best regards,
Jean-Guilhem
Le 07/06/2011 08:51, Samuel Mandell a écrit :
> Essentially what I'm looking for is the ability to produce a
> Thomas-Guide style maps book where a city is broken into printable
> pages (e.g. A6) and at the back would be an index of streets with
> corresponding page and x/y axis information.
>
> As mentioned before it would be ideal if this could be automated so
> that all it would need is a city and it would produce the pages.
> Anybody interested in helping create such a system?
>
> -Samuel
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Dane Springmeyer <dane at dbsgeo.com
> <mailto:dane at dbsgeo.com>> wrote:
>
> Samuel,
>
> It seems to me like rendering the actual pages would be easier
> (than actually rendering a large image, then chopping). This
> should also give better results because the scales of things like
> text and lines would look better.
>
> So, the way I would approach this would be to determine the size
> and extents of each map for each page (ideally automatically).
> Then render each one with Mapnik. So, your ingredients would be a
> width and height in pixels, and bounding box for each page. Then
> write a python script to loop over every page and render a map
> using an OSM stylesheet.
>
> If you don't have python scripts skills then we can think of
> alternatives, but that would be my first recommendation. Mike
> Migurski, also author of safety maps, has done this with Mapnik
> for printed bike maps of SF, so he could likely advise.
>
> On Jun 6, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Mikel Maron wrote:
>
>> Folks, what did we have in place to produce map books?
>>
>
> Making mapbooks easier to script, via python, with Mapnik has long
> been a goal of mine.
>
> But I've not really gotten past proof of concept. One usecase is
> making a map of every "feature" in a dataset that meets some
> criteria. I wrote a script a while ago that demonstrates how to do
> that with mapnik by querying all countries over a given population
> and them rendering a map for each, while painting a special
> outline over their border. Code is
> here: http://mapnik-utils.googlecode.com/svn/example_code/map_sequences/
> and an animated gif to demonstrate what is done is here:
>
> http://dbsgeo.com/tmp/mapnik_animated.gif
>
>> Can Mapsomatic easily be modified for different formats/scales?
>
> It can be done but I've found that hacking around in MapOsMatic
> requires a lot of patience and pretty high python/cairo skill level.
>
>>
>> http://www.safety-maps.org/ was a recent project to do something
>> similar. I know the developers would be interested to hear more
>> ideas how to make it useful.
>
> safety-maps are awesome.
>
>>
>> == Mikel Maron ==
>> +14152835207 <tel:%2B14152835207> @mikel s:mikelmaron
>>
>>
>> ----- Forwarded Message ----
>> *From:* Richard Weait <richard at weait.com <mailto:richard at weait.com>>
>> *To:* Samuel Mandell <shmandell at gmail.com
>> <mailto:shmandell at gmail.com>>
>> *Cc:* talk at openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk at openstreetmap.org>
>> *Sent:* Mon, June 6, 2011 4:16:08 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: [OSM-talk] Disaster Preparedness Project
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Samuel Mandell
>> <shmandell at gmail.com <mailto:shmandell at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > I'm designing a project whose goal is to prepare folks in my
>> community for
>> > disasters. An essential part of any disaster kit are maps of the
>> local area
>> > so that when electricity has gone out people can still navigate
>> to specific
>> > areas of the city (for instance to get supplies or medical help).
>> > OpenStreetMap has comprehensive map data for my area (the San
>> Francisco Bay
>> > Area) and I'd like to use the mapping data to create maps for
>> the various
>> > cities to hand-out to residents. Since I'd need detailed
>> (1:4800) of an
>> > entire city I haven't been able to use the export tool since it
>> seems to
>> > have some built in limits to how large of an image it will
>> generate (which
>> > makes sense). For Mountain View, CA the image size we'd want to
>> generate is
>> > around 9409 x 11310 with a 1:4800 scale, in other words, very
>> large. We
>> > would then cut this into smaller squares and print it out in a
>> booklet with
>> > attribution to OpenStreetMap for the data and visuals.
>> > What's the best way for us to generate these detailed maps of
>> the various
>> > cities?
>>
>> Well that sounds awesome.
>>
>> You might try downloading an extract of OSM data for that area. You
>> should be able to find an extract that deals with California, or the
>> US West. That way you don't have to deal with an entire planet full
>> of data. Then use Mapnik or one of the other rendering tools to
>> generate your map. You'll likely want to adjust the style sheet to
>> make it just right for emergency awareness.
>>
>> There is a company in SF area experienced in printing high resolution
>> maps from OSM data. Perhaps they'll do it for you for free since
>> it is
>> such a worthy project?
>>
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