[OSM-talk] Custom rendering of a small map

[Frederik Ramm]

Gerv,

Gervase Markham wrote:
> 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!).

I guess by now you have an idea of the kind of trouble you're signing up 
to by getting married ;-)

If you

* are geek enough to think that you can fiddle with a Mapnik stylesheet
* have a bit of money to spare

but

* are not willing to go through the whole Mapnik setup yourself

you could set up an Amazon cloud thingie (billed by the hour, thus 
affordable) and install the stuff from tiledrawer.com which gets you a 
ready-made tile server. Then play around with the style sheet until you 
like it (simply preview in web browser), and finally make a screenshot 
or even better, run an SVG export.

This still requires hacking the XML but you get the PostGIS and Mapnik 
setup delivered right to your Amazon machine.

Bye
Frederik