[HOT] printing HDM map from osm

[amrit karmacharya]

How can we get and stitch high resolution tiles?


On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Harry Wood <mail at harrywood.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Laurent
> An easy (crude) way to do a high quality printout is to generate a very
> high resolution raster image just by stitching tiles.
>
> I don't know if it's helpful for you because you're on a slow internet
> connection, but I've just made a big image if Kalemie for you
> It's 9216 x 15360 pixels.  That's 6 Mb to download. The kalemie.png link
> here: http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/kalemie/
> The smaller kalemie-thumb.png gives feel for what it looks like and where
> the map covers.
>
> Getting HDM-cartoCSS might be a smarter solution. Maybe someone can advise
> you on the hardcoded paths problem (/home/ybon/...)  (Yohan Boniface?)
>
> Harry
>
> ________________________________
> From: Laurent Savaëte <laurent.savaete at gmail.com>
> To: hot <hot at openstreetmap.org>
> Sent: Monday, 16 September 2013, 22:48
> Subject: [HOT] printing HDM map from osm
>
>
> Hello hello,
>
> I am currently at http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/-5.9185/29.1926,
> working for MSF/Doctors without borders.
> We're gearing up in preparation for a cholera vaccination campaign, and
> quite possibly other emergency actions as the annual cholera epidemic is
> looming around.
> I have spent several days updating OSM both remotely and locally to get
> a decent map of the city (there's still a lot to do though), but I'm now
> stuck trying to get a usable printout.
> I've tried several options (maperitive, maposmatic, osm bright/tilemill,
> QGIS import...) but nothing seems to work (I want a pdf output so I can
> print on several A4 pages and tape them together, showing streetnames
> and other landmarks). Ideally, I'd get
> https://github.com/hotosm/HDM-CartoCSS to work, but same thing there, no
> luck despite following the readme. I'd love to give some more detailed
> symptoms, but all I can say is:
> - errors in tilemill due to hardcoded paths (/home/ybon/...)
> - no visible reaction from tilemill after I close the error messages
> I'm on a satellite connection (ie: pretty slow and expensive) so this
> might explain the absence of reaction.
>
> I think this is not the official help channel for HDM-cartoCSS, but I
> hope this will reach the right people. I'd be immensely grateful for any
> help getting this to work (is there a detailed tutorial out there for
> places other than Haiti?), or suggestions on an alternative solution for
> printing out an osm based map (that does not involve downloading huge
> data!).
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Laurent
>
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