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Is there a way to export/save maps that show street names?

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I understand your export feature, however, when I export a map that is the full area I want, I can't zoom in and see the street names (such as if I wanted to enlarge the map & print on 24 x 36 or larger). Please let me know if this is possible.

Thanks!

asked 31 May '12, 21:58

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The reason we don't have such high-resolution output from our export feature is that it computationally (relatively) expensive to produce such detailed maps. (Plus the files get huge and most people would probably download them and then find they can't process them.)

But since you can download the raw data, you can run rendering software on your own computer to produce any map in any level of detail you want. Type "rendering my own map" or "printing" in the search box above and read some of the answers. You might end up using Maperitive or set up your own Mapnik installation and render images with the nik2img.py utility.

answered 01 Jun '12, 00:53

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edited 01 Jun '12, 00:54

Source code available on GitHub .