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OpenStreetMap offers many possibilities for creating high resolution paper maps. Unlike commercial map services such as Mapquest and Google Maps, there are few restrictions on what you can do with OSM images.
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Basic Export Tab
The main Export tab on the openstreetmap.org front page, can export arbitrary map areas within a limited range of resolution, suitable for simple situations. The pdf export is suitable for printing on high resolution printers. Bitmap output formats are available, but as the resolution is increased the font size gets smaller and text readability does not improve.
Special Purpose Printed Maps
- Create your own maps using OpenStreetMap - Step-by-step tutorial on use-it.be using JOSM, Osmarender, and Inkscape
- Printed maps that have already been published.
- Osmarender restguide - Script to create a restaurant guide using osmarender
- Walking-Papers (walking-papers.org) makes a map pdf from OSM data for you.
- Osmarender is a program to produce high-quality graphical output from OSM data, suitable for printing.
- Osmbook is a program that can print multiple-page map books out of OSM data with a gridded overview, a page index of all printed labels, and optional subgridded pages.
- OSM-Atlas creates a PDF street atlas suitable for printing.
- Mapnik Example - how to use Mapnik on your own PC to render maps from OpenStreetMap data.
- Add a Compass Rose to your map
- To make a large map that you can print out on a normal printer see Maps for developing countries
- MapOSMatic (maposmatic.org) city map generator, including index of the streets
- TownGuide (townguide.webhop.net) PDF Map Generator with street index and index of user selectable Points of Interest.
- a webservice basing upon this tool is OpenPaperMaps
- Mapapel (Mapapel.com) Printable city maps based on OSM data.
- MapPDF for vector PDF renderings
- Generic Mapping Tools (gmt.soest.hawaii.edu) is a collection of tools to produce high quality scientific maps; GMT input files can be derived from OSM e. g. via PostgreSQL/PostGis and the GDAL ogr2ogr conversion utility
- MapBook
As a big image map
Generating from existing tile sets
- StaticMap ([1])
- MapOf ([2]) - Generates (server side) an image of specified centre point and dimensions tiles@home tiles.
- bigmap ([3]) - Forms a big map arranging tile images side by side. Interface to adjust the view. Download a perl script to generate a stitched together image.
- MapQuest Open Static Maps ([4]) - Generates a static map from MapQuest OpenStreetMap Mapnik rendered tiles
- Category:Tile stitching - Lists these and other tools which can download tiles and stitch them together to form a large (hi-res) image.
- GetMap ([5]) - (BROKEN 09 March 2012) Generates (server side) an image specified by pasting a map permalink, fetching from a choice of tile sets.
Rendering from raw osm data
See Rendering for a full list of options and details for setting up your own rendering software.
- Mapnik is the renderer used to create the default tile layer on the main OSM homepage. It can output SVG.
- Osmarender renders an SVG map image which can generate a high-quality raster image.
- Maperitive is a desktop application for interactive mapping, with many tools and functions, including exporting to bitmaps and SVG files. It works on Windows, Linux and Mac. Maperitive is successor to Kosmos.
- Kosmos is a lightweight map rendering engine which is able to display OpenStreetMap maps interactively or through a web browser. It is available on Windows systems.
- Merkaartor is desktop OSM editor that can output SVG and bitmaps using presets and editable styles.
- osmrender.pl is a small PERL program that can be customized easily and draws simple maps.
- Mapgen.pl is another perl application with customized output.
As tile images
- See Creating_your_own_tiles for generation of map tile sets.
- JMapViewer is a Java API for browsing map tiles which is the same with those of Slippy Map. It can cache tiles in your hard disk, too.
- Kosmos has a tile generation feature and a tile server. By using it, you can brows tiles by your web browser locally.
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