[OSM-talk] script to cut a big OSM map into letter or A4 size papers

[Peter Childs]

2009/5/27 Arlindo Pereira <nighto at nighto.net>:
> Wow, I second that question, that would be very nice. I'm no scripter
> myself, but I suppose that it won't be needed to render the tiles on
> the device, just tome way to download the png tiles from the server
> and print them side to side.
>
> []
>
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 23:01, maning sambale
> <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> There used to be a osm pdf atlas.  Is there a script somewhere that can:
>>
>> 1. download mapnik tiles of a certain bounding box like a small city
>> at z17 or 18;
>> 2. cut the image into printable size like an A4 or letter size paper.
>>
>> Being almost road complete (except for a few private footways).  I
>> find walking with a plain map, pen and paper  to be the best way to
>> add more detail like POIs, housenumber, etc.
>> If I could make a rough "streetatlas", a workable target would be to
>> map POIs and street numbers for like 4-pages-per-week.
>>

I'm thinking web based script that produced pdf files of OSM would be
really really good, Possibly rendering direct to PDF (which is
actually a vector based format)

Possibly done so the scale was correct on each page rather than trying
to fit a globe on a bit of paper. (Like a big road map) and we don't
end up with page after page of blue sea.

I'm thinking php can produce pdfs quite well so why not.

If done well, we could then send the pdf to a printer and get it
published. I'm thinking a published Road Atlas sitting on the book
shelf next the the RAC and AA versions would be rather impressive.
(and a good money spinner to boot)

Peter.