[HOT] HOT Digest, Vol 43, Issue 15

[Severin MENARD]

Hi Laurent,

I had a look on the MapOSMatic maps you did and they are not satisfying
indeed. MapOSMatic has some limitations that can be sometimes bypassed.
Please find here<http://maposmatic.org/maps/95148/OpUGIvpoxPvqinur#submitmapform>
a
map I did that is more. Tips are: not too large area + use a larger
document size (here A2) than the one you aim at printing. Use then the
print settings:
Page Scaling: Tile all pages
Tile Scale: 45 %

As I guess your printer is set with A4 or letter as the default size, you
will get a map tiled in two. If you have an A3/11x17 large printer, you can
print it on a single sheet.

Hope this can help you,

Sincerely,

Severin


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> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 23:48:09 +0200
> From: Laurent Sava?te <laurent.savaete at gmail.com>
> To: hot <hot at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: [HOT] printing HDM map from osm
> Message-ID: <52377C99.3040301 at gmail.com>
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> 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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