Timeline for How to create high quality map with QGIS and Stamen tiles
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| Apr 6, 2016 at 21:25 | vote | accept | haff | ||
| Apr 6, 2016 at 20:52 | answer | added | Inactivated Account | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 29, 2016 at 12:40 | comment | added | Inactivated Account | @Matt that looks great!!! yeah if more of us start using those styles, and customizing them as we have, we should build a new repository for them and keep them up to date... | |
| Mar 29, 2016 at 4:24 | comment | added | haff | @mapBaker This is a start: imgh.us/greenwood-2.png . I'd also be interested in contributing to these sorts of things if you know where needs exist! | |
| Mar 29, 2016 at 3:58 | history | reopened |
Inactivated Account Fezter Mapperz♦ |
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| Mar 29, 2016 at 2:59 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Mar 29, 2016 at 2:42 | comment | added | Inactivated Account | @Matt that's great to hear! Would love to see what you came up with... re. the 'closed' question, it's par for the course... thanks, and good luck!!! | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 23:03 | comment | added | haff | @mapBaker - Thanks for your comments. This got me where I needed to go. My maps look great now and very crisp like you said. I see now that I had a misunderstanding in how Stamen/OSM pre-rendered tiles work compared to loading the data in QGIS as vector data. If my question ever gets reopened, feel free to post your info as an answer, and I'll select it as correct. | |
| Mar 26, 2016 at 22:44 | comment | added | Inactivated Account | @underdark these are the best... I need to send you the modifications I've made and the greyscale version... | |
| Mar 26, 2016 at 22:44 | comment | added | Inactivated Account | Tutorial: anitagraser.com/2014/05/31/… Styles: github.com/anitagraser/QGIS-resources/tree/master/qgis2/… | |
| Mar 26, 2016 at 22:43 | comment | added | Inactivated Account | @Matt - check the instructions from Underdark about using OSM data (same as Stamen uses) with some style files she has made -these have completely changed print cartography for us - we're doing both 36x24" plots and static images with the OSM lines styled with the 'Google' / colour version, and a black and white style I modified (I should share these soon), but this and the 'Toner Lite' style might get you what you need ... you'll get VERY crisp vector data and labels and you can change the colour values to match your printer if you want... | |
| Mar 26, 2016 at 22:36 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Mar 26, 2016 at 22:20 | comment | added | haff | Hi all, thanks for all the helpful information so far. I should have been more specific - I'd particularly like to use Stamen's landscape tiles for this project. I've edited my question to make it more specific. | |
| Mar 26, 2016 at 22:18 | history | edited | haff | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Reworded the question making it more specific
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| Mar 26, 2016 at 21:02 | history | closed |
Vince PolyGeo♦ |
Needs more focus | |
| Mar 26, 2016 at 19:26 | comment | added | mgc | I guess it depends on what elements from OSM you need. If you need most (or all) of the element displayed on usual tiles and if you need to make maps on various places with various zoom levels etc. it seems logical to use tiles and you can render your own (there is some tutorials on switch2osm.org for example and you can also take a look at the official OSM wiki). If you have less constraints (almost always same zoom, only want to display roads for example, etc.) you can also download OSM data as shapefiles, and style them according to your needs in QGIS for example. | |
| Mar 26, 2016 at 19:16 | comment | added | haff | @Azimo Yes, but from my understanding I would have to download the OSM data as images, and these won't be georeferenced, correct? I may have a misunderstanding here and would be open to trying though. | |
| Mar 26, 2016 at 19:09 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 26, 2016 at 18:52 | history | edited | Vince | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 26, 2016 at 18:13 | comment | added | WKT | Did you consider to download OSM ? | |
| Mar 26, 2016 at 17:23 | comment | added | haff | @underdark links would be fine btw | |
| Mar 26, 2016 at 17:10 | comment | added | haff | @underdark Ok good to know. Any suggestions for alternative tile sources then? Or a different approach in general? | |
| Mar 26, 2016 at 16:38 | comment | added | underdark | You cannot use low-res pre-rendered tiles to create quality high-res maps. You need to change your approach! | |
| Mar 26, 2016 at 16:27 | history | asked | haff | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
