[OSM-talk] OSM into OOo document

[Stephen Cavilia]

The best way to do this is to use a GIS application to display the data
over the map tiles (or a different rendering of OSM data) and
export/print an image or simply screenshot it.

Have a look at Viking (http://viking.sf.net/). This is a lightweight
application designed for displaying and editing GPS data; if you have
waypoints in GPX format it can very easily show them as icons over OSM
tiles. Then you can export an image of the map area (which always has an
annoying crosshair graphic in the center that I can't seem to get rid of)

The next step up would be Quantum GIS, which can handle all kinds of
geospatial vector dta formats and databases, and can be kludged to
display OSM tiles with the GDAL WMS/TMS driver. It can also
import/render OSM vector data, although it doesn't handle road labels
all that intelligently, and the classification/graduated symbology
system is fairly cumbersome for selecting different features based on
OSM tags. This takes a lot more work though in getting all the right
coordinate systems and rendering rules configured.

Steve

Donald Campbell II wrote:
> I've been working on getting points mapped and shown on an image in an
> openoffice document.
> 
> I'm asking with the list to see if I can get some ideas or if this is
> already done somewhere, perhaps I can avoid reinventing the wheel.
> 
> Basically I'm using the method described here
> <http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=14979&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0>
> to load an image from a URL into a document as a bitmap.  What I'd like
> to do is use GPS coordinates from a database and show a few on each page
> mapped as a group.  It's just an address list that shows all points on
> the map.  
> 
> A few ideas I have...
> 1) Look around for sample code to determine the tiles and zoomlevels
> that would holds the bounds I'd need to show all points in my set.  I'd
> still have to figure out how to draw another image on top putting the
> points on the right spot as well as how to make sure the images line up
> if I need several tiles.
> 
> 2) Find some sort of online API or website that will let me give it a
> set of points by encoding them into a URL and then download an image.
> 
> I tried playing around with GPSvisualizer since waypoints can be put
> into the URL but the result is a full webpage with layers and
> javascript, not a simple image.  I tried the JPEG export options but
> that doesn't allow an OSM background for whatever reason.  
> 
> 3) Find some sample javascript that does exactly what I need and get
> that to run in Openoffice as a macro since javascript is supported.  
> 
> So it seems my best options are #2 and #3.  Maybe someone already knows
> where there's already a service or code to do close to what I need.  Any
> other suggestions are appreciated as well.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Don.
> 
> 
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