[OSM-talk] rendering some large maps, e.g. whole world

[Brian Quinion]

> One caveat, though: As the icons are included as pixel graphics, and I do
> not know of any possiblity to scale them using style file syntax, they are
> not modified. Thus they will appear much too small on a printed map. If you
> have better icons, you might be able to adapt the script such that it
> exchanges yours for the standard ones ...

Most of the icons in the standard mapnik style are rendered from the
twotone svg set and can be rendered at any required size by modifying
the script (i.e.
http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/share/map-icons/svg-twotone/generatemapniksymbols.sh)
Although i've still not got round to modifying this script since the
icons where put in to the new hierarchy - you might need to check out
an old version of the twotone folder to get it to work.

Cheers,
--
 Brian