[OSM-talk] Cambridge complete!

[Dirk-Lüder Kreie]

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David Earl schrieb:
> I am very pleased to be able to say that the City of Cambridge (UK) is now
> comletely mapped (all street names, cycleways, key footways, amenities etc,
> E&OE). (The osmarender version of the online map seems to reflect the most
> recent changes).
> 
> I did about 98% of it over the last 3 months: I've cycled every street in
> the City, around 1,200 km I estimate, since October, including some of the
> outlying areas (various bits of the hinterland is my next goal).

Congratulations on that.

[...]
> Secondly, I thought I might produce a poster size printed map of the City if
> I did that. Is there a way to get selected high-res tiles out as images so I
> can stitch them together into a much larger version than you would normally
> get in a browser?

The tiles have a quite easy naming scheme (See wiki Articles
[[Slippy_Map]] and [[Slippy map tilenames]] allowing for something like
that.
Alternatively (and probably the better method quality-wise) you can use
Osmarender or similar to get an SVG directly, which, as a vector image,
scales to arbitrary sizes/resolutions without pixelation.

Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie

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