Osmbook

Example output: One page of Davis, in Yolo County, CA, US

osmbook is a program for turning OSM data into a printed book (one of several approaches for getting OSM on Paper) . Osmbook generates a high-level gridded overview page and multiple other pages with cross referencing and additional information.

Status

Right now osmbook is functional but poorly documented. Its output is currently generated by calling a number of subtools (including latex, inkscape, orp.svn, osmosis).

Immediate todo items:

• Add a street index

Getting osmbook

As it is still under active development, the only place to access it at the moment is via SVN.

 svn co https://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/osmbook/trunk osmbook

Other Requirements

It also requires additional directories in the current directory (currently; path access coming eventually):

 # get Osmosis and place it in osmosis/bin/osmosis:
 wget https://dev.openstreetmap.org/~bretth/osmosis-build/osmosis-latest.zip
 unzip -d osmosis osmosis-latest.zip
 # get a copy of orp.svn:
 svn co https://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/osmarender/orp orp.svn
 # get a copy of osmarender, and make its stylesheets/ avaialble in the working directory
 svn co https://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/osmarender
 ln -s osmarender/stylesheets
 # needed perl modules:
 perl -MCPAN -e "install 'Getopt::GUI::Long'"
 perl -MCPAN -e "install 'XML::Simple'"
 perl -MCPAN -e "install 'GD'"
 perl -MCPAN -e "install 'SVG'"
 perl -MCPAN -e "install 'XML::Parser::PerlSAX'"
 perl -MCPAN -e "install 'Set::Object'"
 perl -MCPAN -e "install 'XML::XPath'"
 perl -MCPAN -e "install 'XML::Writer'"

Ubuntu-Users replace the last commands with:

 sudo apt-get install libgd2-xpm-dev libgd-svg-perl libset-object-perl
 sudo perl -MCPAN -e "install 'Getopt::GUI::Long'"
 sudo perl -MCPAN -e "install 'XML::Simple'"
 sudo perl -MCPAN -e "install 'GD'"

MacOS X users will also need to install:

• libgd (./configure && make && make install)
• pdflatex as part of the BasicTex package (.pkg)
• wget (./configure && make && make install)

You'll also need inkscape and pdflatex in your path.

Running it

Once everything is installed, you can run it and give it a project file (see the examples in osmbook/exmaples) that defines the areas you want rendered and how many grid squares to use.

You probably want to create a new directory for your project since it creates a lot of files there, a sample session would then be:

 mkdir yolo
 cd yolo
 ln -s ../stylesheets/osm-map-features-z14.xml # make sure that the files mentioned in your xml file are available
 ln -s ../stylesheets/osm-map-features-z6.xml osm-map-features-z06.xml
 ln -s ../orp.svn
 ln -s ../osmosis
 perl ../osmbook/osmbook --png ../osmbook/exmaples/yolocounty.xml

Known Errors

If you run osmbook with Ubuntu 9.10, there crash with error:

Ran out of memory for input buffer at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/Parser/Expat.pm line 469.

It looks like a known bug into the perl environment with Debian/Ubuntu. Read http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498194

solution: Nothing :-(

Contacting The Author

If you have questions, feature desires, etc please feel free to drop me a note at hardaker AT users sourceforge net