How to create your own maps?

[Anonymous]

ChristianK wrote:

masterX244 wrote:

don’t show their text and the hiking paths don’t get the highlighting ariund them

If you use OAM Tagmapping, OAM Tagtransform and the Elevate from @tobias it should work.

There are no hidden obstacles in dokumentation away from resolving relations.

For the labels of the contourlines you have to zoom in.

As pointed in another message, I also have this issue of contour lines labels not showing up, unless I zoom in to very very high zoom levels. Are OAM Tagmapping & OAM Tagtransform files published in the MapBasics section up to date?

[ChristianKKeymaster]

Anonymous wrote:

Are OAM Tagmapping & OAM Tagtransform files published in the MapBasics section up to date

Yes, the files are up to date.
… hmmm, maybe there are old versions at the CDN for several days after update

[Anonymous]

ChristianK wrote:

… hmmm, maybe there are old versions at the CDN for several days after update

Sorry, what do you mean?
Thanks&Regards

[ChristianKKeymaster]

CDN = ContendDeliveryNetwork
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network

So files are cached on externel Servers around the world and this may take some days till these caches are filled with newer versions of the files.

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[Anonymous]

ChristianK wrote:

CDN = ContendDeliveryNetwork

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network

So files are cached on externel Servers around the world and this may take some days till these caches are filled with newer versions of the files.

Ok, but have these files (tag-mapping & tag-transform) been changed recently?

[ChristianKKeymaster]

Yes, today tagtransform has changed.

Edit: There was a problem with crayon syntax highlighter not refreshing url reference to the xml-file.
I replaced the crayon by a direct download button for both tagmapping and tagtransform.xml’s.

Sorry…

• This reply was modified 5 months, 4 weeks ago by  ChristianK.

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[rooartParticipant]

Hi Christian,
First thanks a lot for this huge amount of work and for providing the results for free. I will soon make a donation for sure.
I am also interested in creating my own .map files for a small area with daily updates (I need it during intense mapping periods).
I have read the main steps described in this topic and I feel like it would be very helpful to have a short tutorial in the MapBasics section of your website.
Would you agree writing it down with your own tips accumulated from your experience ?
That would be awesome !
Many thanks

[ChristianKKeymaster]

Hi,

I’m sorry buit this is – if you want to produce maps with all bells ‘n whistles like the openandromaps – a very complicated process with numerous steps of preprozessing of the OSM base data.
There are 7 different tag_mappings, even the make_scripts are made on the fly by a script.
With a tileserver you have a well documented toolset – not with mapsforge.
There is no easy “how to” and the process is in constant flow – actually I’m rewriting the sripsts for resolving the relations from scratch for releasing V5 maps end of the year.

Best regards
Christian

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rooart

[rooartParticipant]

Thanks for your quick answer Christian.
Alternatively, is it possible to:

1 / Produce maps of poorer quality in a simple way (without all the bells and whistles) that would still render correctly (with elevate theme) the hiking paths with sac_scale and trail_visibility tags ? No route relations. Contours if possible but not mandatory. POIs not mandatory. This is only for mapping purposes and I can still overlay other maps to get the missing context.

2/ Kindly ask you to generate a specific area (smaller than existing ones) on the fly ? For instance Central Pyrenees like: E: 0 to 2.1 / N:42.5 to 43 ?

Best regards

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[TobiasModerator]

rooart wrote:

Produce maps of poorer quality

This is discussed in this thread above. All except of route relations.

Developer of Elevate mapstyle

[rooartParticipant]

Hi,
Thanks to the info found in this topic and also this one from solitone , I managed to do what I was looking for.
From my android phone, I can now run a small script that downloads the latest path and track info directly from the OSM overpass API (for a very small area) and creates a new vector map in the Locus directory using the Elevate theme for rendering.
Typically I use this small map as an overlay (only showing hiking paths and tracks) :
– On top of OpenAndroMaps to have a preview of my recent edits and to get updates from others made during the last month (official map uses planet.osm from end of June in my area).
– On top of satellite or aerial images
– On top of French IGN hiking maps to get the most out of the 2 worlds (very detailed landscape features from IGN and up-to-date hiking paths with difficulty and visibility info from OSM).

I will soon post my script here with some details in case other people are interested.

Again, many thanks to Christian and Tobias for their hard work and the amazing outcomes from it !
Please keep on supporting this project with some donations

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