[OGDev] Making a map for a leaflet

[Stephen Gower]

On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:44:54AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 05:52:48AM +0100, Andrew Black - lists wrote:
> > 
> > I want to make a leaflet for an event and include a map. [...]
> 
> There are two main methods used for rendering OSM data: OSMarender,
> which uses XSLT to transform the OSM XML data to SVG (which can then
> easily be rendered using a variety of methods) and mapnik, which uses
> Postgis (so requires a postgres database server).

  These have both been aimed at producing maps for onscreen display -
  they probably print OK, but there's a couple of much smaller
  projects designed to produce formats perhaps a little more suited
  to print.

  OSMPS converts .osm files (which can be saved from JOSM, the editor
  Dom mentioned) to postscript (and then to PDF/etc)
  http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/osmps 
  I've played with this, and it certainly works, but it's not too
  flexible.

  Secondly, there's osm2ai which creates Adobe Illustrator files
  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Exporting_to_Adobe_Illustrator
  I've not played with this because it would require setting up a
  mysql database replicating the main OSM one, which I've not had
  time for so far - but there are HOWTOs on doing this.
  
  s