[OSM-newbies] Printing a map

[john whelan]

I've quoted a specific case and it looks as if different render solutions
omit different POIs. Its quite difficult to display or print all the points
of interest that are grouped to close together.

Thank you very much to "Seventy 7 <seventy7 at operamail.com>" but reality
today is probably import one or more screenshots into a graphics editor such
as Paintshop Pro then edit before printing.

It's difficult to do a "sales pitch" on OSM when a POI that has been entered
and displays correctly at
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.469011&lon=-75.491791&zoom=18&layers=B000FTFno
longer displays because more POIs have been added nearby.  This is a
major problem in urban areas and not just for small businesses.

The local Opendata mob are having an open day at city hall on April 25th.  I
had thought about printing out some maps of the city center but since I want
to include an Openstreetmap.org logo on them I think I'll screenshot and
clean them up in Paintshop Pro.

Many thanks for all your input but it looks like this is one area where
"real soon now"tm  something will be available.

Cheerio John

On 9 April 2010 17:21, Seventy 7 <seventy7 at operamail.com> wrote:

> Fourth time lucky! I keep breaking the 40K limit on postings.
>
> Maperitive will do this right now, even though it's only 10%
> complete, if that!
>
> It has the ability to show Mapnik and Osmarender backgrounds and it
> will also export them at any zoom level and any width (within
> reason). I have a map of York, UK, rendered at Zoom 18 and covers
> some 9 sq miles or so. At 30MB I won't post it!
>
> The attached shows (at significantly reduced quality! I've had to compress
> it a lot) the florist
> John's interested in. It's a Mapnik background with a single
> Maperitive rule to render Florists. Does the job!
>
> Regards,
> Steve
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John F. Eldredge" <john at jfeldredge.com>
> > To: "OpenStreetMap newbies mailing list" <newbies at openstreetmap.org>
> > Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Printing a map
> > Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 20:35:21 +0000
> >
> >
> > I share your frustration.  Even in the map display on the
> > OpenStreetMap Web site, most of the POIs don't render unless you
> > are zoomed in to the most detailed view, and can only display an
> > area 50 or 60 meters across.  The same thing is true in several
> > different mapping programs that I have tried, all of which use
> > pre-rendered OSM tiles.
> >
> > --
> > John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
> > "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better
> > than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria
> >
>
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