[OSM-talk] Custom rendering of a small map

[john whelan]

You actually get a lot of control but it isn't user friendly out of the
box.  I've done a write up here on how to run it from a .bat file and you
can edit the rules off line with this method.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maperitive#How_to

Cheerio John

On 6 June 2010 10:44, Gervase Markham <gerv-gmane at gerv.net> wrote:

> On 06/06/10 13:52, Seventy 7 wrote:
> > Yes, Maperitive would be ideal. Although the SVG export is not yet done,
> > quality (ie large) bitmaps can be done with a "scale" command to smooth
> > out pixellation.
>
> I got as far as getting it running (it needs System.Window.Forms; on
> Ubuntu, run
> sudo apt-get install libmono-winforms*
> ) and managed, through typing "zoom-out" and "zoom-in" about 50 times
> each, to get to the right area of the map, and downloaded the OSM data.
> But, not wanting to knock the hard work of you or others, even before I
> looked at making style changes, it seemed fairly clear that the text
> rendering wasn't nearly as nice as Mapnik's.
>
> I'm developing a whole new appreciation of how hard it is to write a map
> renderer which produces beautiful maps!
>
> > You might also like to have a look at Maposmatic
> > http://www.maposmatic.org/ as it has SVG export.
>
> That seems just to produce SVG of the default Mapnik style, which I can
> already get from http://www.openstreetmap.org/.
>
> Gerv
>
>
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