NOTICE: help.openstreetmap.org is no longer in use from 1st March 2024. Please use the OpenStreetMap Community Forum

I want to use a custom style over an OpenStreetMap map, to change some colors, avoid showing some texts and stuff like that.

I only need an image of the final map (I need it for a poster). I have seen there are several solutions, like Mapzen and Mapbox, but they seem focused in displaying the map in a website and pricing by the number of visits per month, so I don't think I can use them to just take a picture of the map.

I have tried Maperitive, but it just doesn't work with big maps.

What do you recommend me?

asked 18 Apr '19, 18:16

hashmaper's gravatar image

hashmaper
16111
accept rate: 0%


Simplest solution is exporting a large image via the web site and then modifying in a graphics program. (You can export SVG too.) More flexible solution is loading data into your own PostgreSQL database and rendering openstreetmap-carto, mapnik, nik4.py but that requires Linux and quite a bit of software installation. If the map you want to make is just "a little too big for Maperitive" then pre-filtering the OSM data with osmfilter or osmosis - throwing out all the houses and residential roads and other stuff that won't show anyway - could potentially bring your data size down to something that Maperitive can handle.

permanent link

answered 19 Apr '19, 16:25

Frederik%20Ramm's gravatar image

Frederik Ramm ♦
82.5k927201273
accept rate: 23%

Your answer
toggle preview

Follow this question

By Email:

Once you sign in you will be able to subscribe for any updates here

By RSS:

Answers

Answers and Comments

Markdown Basics

  • *italic* or _italic_
  • **bold** or __bold__
  • link:[text](http://url.com/ "title")
  • image?![alt text](/path/img.jpg "title")
  • numbered list: 1. Foo 2. Bar
  • to add a line break simply add two spaces to where you would like the new line to be.
  • basic HTML tags are also supported

Question tags:

×65
×48
×40

question asked: 18 Apr '19, 18:16

question was seen: 3,738 times

last updated: 19 Apr '19, 16:25

NOTICE: help.openstreetmap.org is no longer in use from 1st March 2024. Please use the OpenStreetMap Community Forum