[OSM-newbies] Map rendering for print

Tony Morris tonymorris at gmail.com
Thu Oct 8 02:00:11 BST 2009


Indeed that is what I need! Thanks mate.

Now I need other areas. I have the GNU/Linux part -- what are the other
tools you refer to?


Richard Weait wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Tony Morris <tonymorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Sorry, I was very unclear.
>>
>> Consider
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-22.26955&lon=166.45939&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF
>>     
>
> That still leaves some room for interpretation.  You might consider
> specifying a bounding box, desired image dimensions and resolution.
> There is also room for things like finished text size, and which
> points of interest.
>
> So I rendered the area in your link at about 8500x8500 pixels.
>
> http://weait.com/new-caledonia.png (about 5MB)
>
> You can do all of this and more yourself.  It takes a little patience,
> a little GNU/Linux knowledge and a few free software tools.
>
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