[OSM-talk] OSM "real" paper map of Freiburg, Germany

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

    Jochen and I have produced a "real" paper map of the city of  
Freiburg for the FOSSGIS 2008 conference. The map is an A3, two  
sided, full colour print, folded just like city maps are usually  
folded; we have printed 1,000 copies for a total price of 360 Euros  
plus VAT. The printing is paid for by GAV, one of the conference  
sponsors. One side of the map has a detailed city plan, the other  
side has a "grand picture" overview and copious OSM advertising on it.

We're very proud of the quality we achieved here. Both maps were  
created with Osmarender (one with the original XSLT variant, one with  
my Perl implementation as a "proof of concept"). It was quite a lot  
of work; we first tweaked the rules file to get the right colours  
(i.e. the usual colours in German city maps), then we did some  
modifications on the OSM file itself using JOSM (some of which we  
uploaded and some not because they were specific for this map, like  
breaking a way in the middle to achieve better text placement). After  
that we created the SVG file and fine-tuned that with Inkscape.  
Finally, a high-resolution PNG was rendered and a finishing touch was  
applied using the GIMP (removing some rendering artifacts etc). The  
resulting bitmap was then again imported into a new SVG document,  
from which we created the PDFs for printing.

A photo of the finished "real printed maps" is here:
http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/freiburg.jpg
(The front page has an OSGeo logo because they are also sponsors of  
the conference, but if you look at the full content you'll see that  
the logo  is the only OSGeo presence - 90% of text is about OSM!)

And the full content, as PDF, is here:
http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/freiburg-stadtplan.zip

Everything is Public Domain or CC-BY-SA where it's derived OSM stuff,  
and I'll gladly make intermediate files (Osmarender rules files etc.)  
available if there's interest.

Also, if some of you are contemplating similar projects or just want  
a copy as a "showcase" of what can be done with OSM data, I can send  
you a paper copy if you tell me where to send it to.

Bye
Frederik

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