[OSM-talk] cadastre, ways, rendering

Nick Burch openstreetmap at gagravarr.org
Tue Jan 23 18:01:54 GMT 2007


On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Ben Ward wrote:
> However, while we're on the subject of making good looking maps, it'd be
> good to get some input from actual printed map cartographers (eg. A-Z,
> Ordnance Survey in the UK, Michelin) to know the best approach for massaging
> of formatting for maps.

The British Cartographic Society are probably the guys to speak to. They 
recently ran a series of 1 day workshops on making better maps from GIS 
data.

My notes from the day I went to are at:
 	http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Better_Mapping_Seminar
Well worth a read for people pondering ways to make renderers better, and 
how to tweak the rendered output.

Nick




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