[OSM-talk] Custom paper map templates

[Sam Vekemans]

Hi thanks,

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Graham Jones <
grahamjones139 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Sam,
> It is probably worth a look at
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_on_Paper if you haven't seen it.
>
> http://www.ancalime.de/gutau.html
Seems to be a little closer, but it would just need an OpenOffice Draw
file.  (so then i can easily move the boxes around), edit icons and change
labels.
This is more of the creative side, where software cant  make that happen.

(the reason why, is that today i passed somone who was looking at a map, and
it 'could' have used OSM, only the city outline was missing, (hopefully
we'll get that in this year), but it was just the page layout that was
different.   Many different printable maps can be made with the same basic
layout.
(ie.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Compass_Rose#compass-rose-basic-thin-letters)
having them all in 1 Oo Draw template file.



> MapOsMatic <http://www.maposmatic.org> produces very nice output with a
> street index, but you can not alter the output from the default style.  Townguide<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TownGuide>is similar but adds selectable points of interest, but its output resolution
> is not as high, so the maps do not look as nice.  However one of this year's
> Google Summer of Code projects<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2010/AcceptedProjects>is looking at taking the best aspects of these projects to improve it and
> add more features.   (ie,.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2010/AcceptedProjects/EasyPrintableMaps)
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenPaperMaps
>
Good luck on those projects, i hope they chose to share what they make :)

>
> Regards
>
>
>
Cool, That gives me some ideas, and looks like
http://www.ancalime.de/gutau.html is ccBYsa, so that helps too.
Thanks,
Sam

Graham
>
> On 13 May 2010 22:53, Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I'm just wondering who all is working on making custom map templates?
>>
>> Walking-papers.org are great, but is only 1 style.
>> I'm making Oo Draw files that just have the page layout, and all the
>> basic map info, (legend, scale, title, directory, copyright line,
>> border. # markers)
>>
>> The Mapgen.pl is for getting the osm map details out into SVG.
>> So the ideas is that Oo is simpler to use than Inkscape, where simple
>> 'prntScrn' can be done, where the monitor resolution is greater or
>> equal to the actual page size.
>>
>> The purpose is to be able to print out free maps and give to any place
>> that will make it available.
>>
>> So im looking for/making templates for cyclists passing through town/
>> walkers looking for tourist attractions / pub 'inspectors' looking for
>> pubs.
>> .... And many other templates, were its easy to move the legend around
>> and draw arrows & add in custom place markers.
>>
>> Is there a wiki page that organizes this info around?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sam
>>
>>
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