[OSM-talk] paper plots

[Joerg Ostertag]

On Wednesday 24 May 2006 17:51, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Close to me, there are no more completely white areas that need to
> be mapped on OSM.  In some areas, however, only the major roads
> have been covered and I need to go back there and fill in the
> smaller roads.  I want to avoid the roads that are already done.
>
> It would be extremely handy to download all of OSM to a handheld
> unit (PDA, GPS receiver, StreetPilot), but lacking that I could
> use a way to generate a PDF (or PostScript) file for printing in
> 300 dpi on an A4/legal size paper.  That is 2000x3000 pixels.
>
> Has anybody done this?  I guess I could use gnuplot and the static
> database dump for rapid prototyping.  It doesn't need to be fast.

It's not directly what you are askin for, but I normally use the current 
gpsdrive (CVS) which now can import a downloaded osm-area by using 
 geoinfo.pl --osm=downloaded-file.osm
Then you can see which roads are already on osm and which are not while you're 
driving.

Hope this helps.

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Jörg

http://www.ostertag.name/