Enrich OSM maps with additional information

Finishing

The cards created with Maperitive will look pretty good as is, depending on the database and the rules. However, you will likely need to rework the details of the exported data. This applies in particular to cards with large amounts of information at scales greater than 1:50000. In terms of this example, there turned out to be several incomplete regular trails declared as "Service Ways" scattered over the entire island (Figure 4).

Figure 4: It's easy to remove unnecessary elements from the card. Just hide or delete the layer marked xxxx.

To improve the map, it's now Inkscape's turn. You can either remove the planes with defective items or complete them by adding more elements. However, Inkscape is so slow when editing maps that it is little fun to edit larger images: Even on a quad-core machine with 8GB RAM, the computer swaps constantly. You will need to plan your changes well in advance.

Conclusions

Maperitive makes it relatively easy to create excellent maps based on OSM data. However, the procedure requires a huge amount of time and much experience. Maperitive helps convert the OSM data into a usable form and does most of the work for you. After that, however, significant manual work is required to produce really good results.

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