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

[Andy Robinson (blackadder)]

Niche work, looks a great map and a great showcase.

Cheers

Andy

>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Frederik Ramm
>Sent: 27 March 2008 11:48 AM
>To: OSM-Talk Talk
>Subject: [OSM-talk] OSM "real" paper map of Freiburg, Germany
>
>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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>Frederik Ramm  ##  eMail frederik at remote.org  ##  N49°00'09" E008°23'33"
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