[OSM-talk] Yet another PDF project

[Oliver White]

On Friday 02 June 2006 06:45, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > PDF atlas is probably at the stage now where people can help-out on
> > it if they want
>
> What would I have to do to create a PDF atlas for Norway?  I guess
> Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen, Tromsø, Narvik and Harstad would be good
> starting points.

Short answer: you need to think of some good numbers (latitudes/longitudes and 
map sizes) to put into this file: 

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/PDF_atlas/places.txt

(feel free to update the wiki with your favourite cities, and everyone else is 
welcome to extend this list to their own countries too)


To see the results of your changes, you will need to run a perl program. The 
program and its associated config and data files are described here:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/PDF_atlas

Send an email when/if you get stuck and I'll try to answer questions.  When 
everything works, it will generate a PDF containing the cities or areas 
you've requested. It takes about 15 minutes on my machine (that's for the 
10-page norway atlas, with intermediate-resolution coastlines, from the May 
2006 OSM data)


If you just want to see results, I've generated a sample output for Norway, 
and put that online (~1.6MB):

http://almien.co.uk/OSM/PDF/

That PDF will look distorted and weird-coloured, and the coastlines resolution 
is useless, and it doesn't handle the ø in Tromsø, and there's loads of other 
problems, but it should give an idea of the sort of thing we're trying to 
achieve...

Regards, 

OJW