[OSM-talk] OSM-TileDownload - Python app to easily create maps

Jon Burgess jburgess777 at googlemail.com
Sat Aug 9 11:51:38 BST 2008


On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 13:26 +0200, q000te wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I use OSM for a while, great work!
> And in the last few days i wrote a little Python app,
> which makes it easy to create maps(png format) from
> OSM, without to setup an Server or copy the planet.osm
> and so on..
> 
> I uploaded an screenshot to:
>  >http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/5177/scrennshotosmtiledownlozx9.png
> 
> OSM-TileDownload uses Python, PyQt4, ImageMagick
> 
> I hope some other also find it useful.


Are you aware that the 'export' tab feature on the main site lets you do
something similar but with an easier selection of the bounding box and a
choice of map layers and output formats?

It does have its limits though. It prevents you obtaining anything
larger than about 2000x2000 pixels.

	Jon






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