On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 05:52:48AM +0100, Andrew Black - lists wrote: 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). For a small area, I'd probably find osmarender easier. I haven't used it for a while, but http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmarender/Howto looks to be fairly informative. As far as adding annotations, depending on what sort of thing you want to add it may be easiest to do so by hand with a vector graphics package (in the SVG file you get from osmarender). Alternatively, check out JOSM <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/JOSM>. This is an OSM editing application - you should be able to download a bounding box using it, and then add your local annotations (as long as they're map-like ones - I'm not sure how you'd draw a route on, for example) and then not upload your changes, but save to a file instead. If you want to get into editing with JOSM, you'll find http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_features helpful as a hint as to what sort of features the renderers are likely to support. Hope that helps - let us know if you get something working! Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)