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Printing map books

Posted by slashme on 16 October 2010 in English.

I made 5 25-page mapbooks of the Alexandra Township (poor area in Johannesburg) from Walking-papers and gave them to the geography teacher of a local school. This morning at 10:00 SAST (08:00 UTC) I'll be talking to some of his pupils and helping them get going with adding information.

I want to give them a nice-looking map book when we're done. What's the most professional-looking, readable way to render OSM data for printing?

Location: Johannesburg Ward 105, Sandton, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, 2014, South Africa

Discussion

Comment from 26eb5473101d742b174d730717409668 on 16 October 2010 at 09:07

Either walking papers or maposmatic.org

Comment from EdLoach on 16 October 2010 at 12:51

I was going to try using OSM Atlas
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM-Atlas
but never got around to it. That links back to OSM on Paper
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_on_Paper
which seems to list a number of different options to try (including the two suggested in the comment above).

Comment from !i! on 16 October 2010 at 15:40

I like the idea :)

Comment from Firefishy on 21 October 2010 at 10:58

Awesome.

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