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.
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