[OSM-talk] Potters Bar map. - Was: Presentation materials

Andy Robinson Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Apr 26 10:07:48 BST 2007


Steve, that's a nice looking map. Its not often we see what is effectively
an area map showing all the main roads which also shows all the major street
names and major orientation features as well. It just goes to show how
creating very good cartography is actually quite easy with OSM data.

It would be very useful to know exactly what you needed to do over and above
a basic osmarender. For instance I can see that all the road names are
displaying fully suggesting you deleted those that did not. If this was done
manually then it's about time we worked out a method in Osmarender of doing
it automatically, perhaps by reference to the number of letters and the
length of the path at the relevant scale.

And a +1 for featured map of the week on this one, we need to promote real
world uses of the data as much as possible.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Chilton [mailto:S.L.Chilton at mdx.ac.uk]
>Sent: 25 April 2007 10:37 PM
>To: Andrew; Andy Robinson
>Cc: OSM
>Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] Presentation materials
>
>Anyone doing presentations who wants an example of OSM data in use for real
>is welcome to use the map done for my children's secondary school website.
>It is an Inkscape-enhanced version of customised SVG output.
>See: http://www.school-
>portal.co.uk/GroupRenderCustomPage.asp?GroupID=54756&ResourceId=447015
>
>Cheers
>STEVE


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