[OSM-talk] Fwd: Haiti Field requirement: Haiti OSM maps in PDF

[Jochen Plumeyer]

Hi everyone,

On Dom 17 Ene 2010, Patrick Kilian wrote:
> I just ran osmarender on the haiti dump and generated a 24MB svg file
> with haiti in the z17 style. Should I upload it somewhere for you? Or
> should I rasterize it first? Should I use another stylefile?

Hey thanks, man, this is highly appreciated! 
The stylesheet stuff could be good for "public use", to facilitate orientation 
while zooming in.

If you could compress that SVG with bzip2 or 7z, I would run inkscape on it, 
if this is possible:

inkscape --export-area-drawing  --export-pdf=quakeregion.pdf quakeregion.svg

> > Also, if you have any ideas, to make the PDF creation process
> > possible on a lowtech machine, thank you for your ideas.

> On the box I used, it took less then 2 minutes. But it has 48 GB of RAM
> and isn't lowtech at all.

I guess for lowtech, mapnik is the choice (binary trees instead of linear 
lists I presume, because of PostgreSQL searches or something).

Cheers, and and a big thank you,

Jochen