[HOT] printing HDM map from osm

Yohan Boniface yohan.boniface at hotosm.org
Mon Sep 23 10:42:02 UTC 2013


Great news!
Now waiting for the poster pics ;)
Also interested by your python script :)

Yohan

On 09/23/2013 12:39 PM, Laurent Savaete wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I finally managed to get tilemill to work, thanks to Yohan's kind and
> patient help. It wasn't an easy one, I had to pull a bunch of git repos
> and compile lots of code, but I now get pdfs out.
> I wrote a short python script to produce tiled pdfs, I'll try to share
> it on github when I get some time to clean it up and make it reusable.
>
> I just wanted to "close" this thread, and thank you all for your
> reactivity. I'll share some pics of the printed map as soon as it's ready.
> Also, I'll be sending a separate email shortly asking for some more HOT
> help.
>
> thanks again from Congo,
> Laurent
>
>
> 2013/9/18 Laurent Savaëte <laurent.savaete at gmail.com
> <mailto:laurent.savaete at gmail.com>>
>
>     Hi Yohan,
>
>     I'm sending you details in a private email. I didn't have time to join
>     irc yesterday. I'll try again today, but hopefully the info in the email
>     may point at something obvious!
>
>     thanks for your help!
>     Laurent
>
>     On 09/17/2013 09:27 AM, Yohan Boniface wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      > On 09/17/2013 05:33 AM, Harry Wood wrote:
>      >> Getting HDM-cartoCSS might be a smarter solution. Maybe someone can
>      >> advise you on the hardcoded paths problem (/home/ybon/...)  (Yohan
>      >> Boniface?)
>      >
>      > Hi Laurent,
>      >
>      > I'm sorry if you have not been able to run Tilemill locally.
>      > There is no built in solution for managing local configuration in
>      > Tilemill, so you have two options:
>      > - the cleaner option is to use CartoCC, as stated in the README
>      > - the simpler is to replace hardcoded path by hand, in the
>     hdm.mml file;
>      > as soon as you don't push or pull later you will have no problems
>     with
>      > this solution
>      > Please note that in anyway Tilemill (through Millstone) will try to
>      > download every shapes needed, which can be too much for a small
>     Internet
>      > connection. Also, you may want to remove the DEM layers, for the same
>      > reason that it will be a pain to download with small Internet.
>      >
>      > If you have a way to be on IRC, I can assist you in live (#hot,
>     #hot-fr
>      > on oftc servers).
>      >
>      >
>      > Yohan
>
>



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