[OSM-talk] Custom rendering of a small map

[Gary68]

dear ian,

could you please be a little bit more precise what you don't like at
osmarender and especially mapgen.pl?

of course a lot of appearance is defined in the style file and the
symbols being used - i didn't spend much time there! (i was challenged
by the render engine). it (mapgen) is not aimed to be a fully blown
renderer - however if it's possible i might implement some improvements.

cheers

gerhard
gary68
 


On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 07:53 -0500, Ian Dees wrote:
> n Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Gervase Markham <gerv-gmane at gerv.net>
> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         
>         I'd like to render a map of about a square mile or so of the
>         town of
>         Bromley, in Kent, for the information sheet for my wedding in
>         August (yay!).
>         http://osm.org/go/0EEBWURG
>         I want to make the map, then remove a few bits which I don't
>         need and
>         add stuff to it like bigger labels on some important POIs like
>         the
>         church and the nearest station. I want it to look
>         professional.
>         
>         This is just the sort of thing OSM should be good for, or so I
>         hope :-)
>         
>         My first effort involved an SVG export of the Mapnik image
>         from the main
>         website. This is pretty good; the only problem is that the
>         roads are
>         unnecessarily narrow and so the road names are small and hard
>         to read.
>         I'd like pretty much that map, except with wider roads and
>         bigger text.
>         It would take an age to change it all manually in the SVG.
>         What are my
>         options for a custom render?
>         
>         - Mapnik: requires an incredible amount of setup, according to
>         the wiki
>           page.
>         
>         - Osmarender: It's ugly. Sorry, but it is.
>         
>         - mapgen.pl: Same.
>         
>         - Kosmos: I'm on Linux, and it only really runs on Windows.
>         
>         - Cobra: development seems dead.
>         
>         - Cartagen: It does road labels square on, which I don't like.
>         
>         - Cloudmade: initially, this seemed really promising. They
>         have a
>           variety of styles, and I probably could make
>           one with wider roads, but the Terms of Service are so long
>         and
>           complex, and say "don't do anything with this data that
>         isn't your
>           own personal use" about three times in different ways, so I
>         assume I
>           can't use it.
>         
>         Any ideas? Is there an online service to which one can submit
>         a Mapnik
>         style sheet and get back a rendering of a small area?
>         
> 
> 
> I'm interested in this, too, because I want to draw OSM data in my car
> computer as a sort of GPS satnav/realtime editor.
> 
> 
> Dane (of Mapnik fame) suggested I use Mapnik with the OSM data plugin.
> That cuts out the majority of the setup time due to PostGIS install
> and import of OSM data.
> 
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