[OSM-talk] [HOT] Fw: Disaster Preparedness Project

Samuel Mandell shmandell at gmail.com
Mon Jun 6 23:58:04 BST 2011


Tim,

I'd appreciate any additional information regarding the maps generated for
Christchurch. I'll also check out www.safety-maps.org.

-Samuel

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Tim McNamara <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Lots of time was spent in late Feburary & early March in NZ to produce
> printable maps from OSM/Ushahidi for Christchurch residents without power.
> It would be great to recycle this energy.
>
> Tim McNamara
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> timmcnamara.co.nz
>
>
>
> On 7 June 2011 10:03, Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Folks, what did we have in place to produce map books?
>>
>> Can Mapsomatic easily be modified for different formats/scales?
>>
>> http://www.safety-maps.org/ was a recent project to do something similar.
>> I know the developers would be interested to hear more ideas how to make it
>> useful.
>>
>> == Mikel Maron ==
>> +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
>>
>>
>> ----- Forwarded Message ----
>> *From:* Richard Weait <richard at weait.com>
>> *To:* Samuel Mandell <shmandell at gmail.com>
>> *Cc:* talk at openstreetmap.org
>> *Sent:* Mon, June 6, 2011 4:16:08 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: [OSM-talk] Disaster Preparedness Project
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Samuel Mandell <shmandell at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I'm designing a project whose goal is to prepare folks in my community
>> for
>> > disasters. An essential part of any disaster kit are maps of the local
>> area
>> > so that when electricity has gone out people can still navigate to
>> specific
>> > areas of the city (for instance to get supplies or medical help).
>> > OpenStreetMap has comprehensive map data for my area (the San Francisco
>> Bay
>> > Area) and I'd like to use the mapping data to create maps for the
>> various
>> > cities to hand-out to residents. Since I'd need detailed (1:4800) of an
>> > entire city I haven't been able to use the export tool since it seems to
>> > have some built in limits to how large of an image it will generate
>> (which
>> > makes sense). For Mountain View, CA the image size we'd want to generate
>> is
>> > around 9409 x 11310 with a 1:4800 scale, in other words, very large. We
>> > would then cut this into smaller squares and print it out in a booklet
>> with
>> > attribution to OpenStreetMap for the data and visuals.
>> > What's the best way for us to generate these detailed maps of the
>> various
>> > cities?
>>
>> Well that sounds awesome.
>>
>> You might try downloading an extract of OSM data for that area.  You
>> should be able to find an extract that deals with California, or the
>> US West.  That way you don't have to deal with an entire planet full
>> of data.  Then use Mapnik or one of the other rendering tools to
>> generate your map.  You'll likely want to adjust the style sheet to
>> make it just right for emergency awareness.
>>
>> There is a company in SF area experienced in printing high resolution
>> maps from OSM data. Perhaps they'll do it for you for free since it is
>> such a worthy project?
>>
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