[OSM-talk] Getting map images

[spaetz]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 03:11:58PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Tom Chance wrote:
> > Great tool, though, very easy to use. Given how many people take screenshots 
> > of Google maps, Multimap etc. it would be fantastic to include something this 
> > simple as a tab on the web site, perhaps called "save", which takes you to a 
> > page with a thumbnail, download link and brief license explanation.
> 
> A web tool for generating printable PDF/SVG maps of an area would also
> be nifty :-)

It's called osmarender and you simply feed it an .osm file :-). Seriously, given a powerful machine, it would be dead easy to create a webinterface that rendered svg (or exported to png) when you hand it an osm file.
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