[OSM-talk-be] Meetup about rendering of maps

[joost schouppe]

I like to use QGIS for basic stuff. E.g. use an open layers background map,
and some data on top of that to highlight certain details. E.g. the maps in
this diary were made with OSM data queried from overpass and some open
layers map: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/diary/38103

It's also relativly easy to use QGIS for rendering OSM data using a sqlite
database (and that's easy to make within the package, based on a .pbf
file). I don't have experience making a pretty map that way, but it can be
quite useful to make maps highlighting specific kinds of data. E.g. maps
like these are easy to make in QGIS:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/diary/40267
(though here the data comes from the osm-history toolchain, not just from a
pbf file)

I think theoretically you could use QGIS and a stylesheet to make a pretty
map from scratch, but haven't seen an example yet. And someone has been
working for years on doing something similar in ArcGIS, and I don't think
he released it yet.

2017-10-05 8:17 GMT+02:00 Jo <winfixit at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> During the next Leuven Monthly OSM Meetup I would like to discuss
> rendering. I was using Maperitive in the past to create this:
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Pad_van_Ad_op_OSM.png
>
> I know. I should update that map more regularly...
>
> Would it make sense to try and use QGIS for rendering? Are there other
> solutions in the mean time?
>
> Maybe somebody with more expertise in this would like to come and give a
> demo?
>
> Jo
>
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