[OSM-talk] Mapnik in Illustrator - how to export a map - help needed

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Jens Winbladh wrote:
> The conference is about 
> open-source 

[...]

> We need help to make the conference map of Århus. The graphic designer 
> of the newspaper, which to be able to edit the map in Illustrator. 

My advice is to not use Illustrator if you want to be credible about 
open source.

If you are desperate to get something going in ai, try osm2ai from the 
OSM SVN (but this only gives you a very basic data set), or use the 
proprietary but free-of-charge converter at 
http://www.flosm.de/ai/index.html.

AI professionals tend to use the Avenza Mapublisher plug-in which costs 
several 1000 $$ and can read shape files. If you have that available I 
could generate shape files for you.

A fully open source way to do what you need would probably involve 
downloading osmarender (or or/p) from SVN, and running it on an Aarhus 
extract to get a proper SVG, then post-process it in Inkscape; an idea 
of the process is here:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Frederik_Ramm/Freiburg_Map

If you want a large printout of the OpenStreetMap map for Aarhus, in 
default Mapnik style, give me your postal address and I'll send you one.

Bye
Frederik

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