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

[David Earl]

On 27/03/2008 11:47, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> 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.

This is great - well done.

I did a one-off A2 paper map of Cambridge after I completed the City 
about a year ago, and one problem I had was that to get the whole city 
in the street names were too small on the whole. I see you solved thios 
by not putting the suburban residential street names in at all :-).


> 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), ... we created the PDFs for printing.

Which is why the "make me a map" website/program that has been discussed 
on the list recently would be so useful.

I think your perl processor offers the opportunity to deal with things 
like name placement in the future that would be extremely hard in the 
XSLT system

> 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.

Can you bring some to SOTM. (Maybe it will inspire the Irish mappers to 
have a paper map of Limerick available!)

David