<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dear all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">What I have done instead of maps like OSM/Google is to use the same backend database I would for a web based map and instead render that with <a href="https://d3js.org/">D3.js</a>, which creates SVG images that can be customised similarly to web tilesets as Hiram suggests, uses the same data, but is much more print-friendly. This is my current approach to nicer looking printable maps, rather than grabbing a screenshot of a web-based map and crossing my fingers that it will look nice when printed. You can control what labels show, how big they are, thicknesses of lines etc and you don't need any different data sets than what you'd use for a web map.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">A quick note if putting into OpenStreetMap: As long as the locations you are trying to map currently exist, or you mark them as "ruins" or some other historical settlement feature (I forget what all the options are at the moment), then it's not an issue. However if you're looking to map anything that's otherwise no longer there then it's unfortunately not possible to use OSM without running afoul of various regional standards. For many countries, there is a dedicated user base that maintains their own standards which differ from country to country depending on how that group of active users decides to enforce things, and you may end up seeing additions being reverted. Think Wikipedia power users. I've put a large amount of my own region of study in, but for things like exo/endonyms of villages, you're again contesting with any other user in the region who may change it causing you to end up with what may be offensive labels on the map you are hoping to produce with the dataset. I encourage people to keep adding to OSM, just be aware of the possibility of your additions being removed or changed.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Kellen<br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">---</div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Kellen Parker van Dam</div><div>Department of Comparative Language Science</div><div>Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution</div><div>University of Zürich, Switzerland</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 09:01, Sylvain Loiseau <<a href="mailto:sylvain.loiseau@univ-paris13.fr">sylvain.loiseau@univ-paris13.fr</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Dear Nick,<br>
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- OpenStreetMap is also useful for creating the data (and having the data open-source).<br>
- The annotated area can be exported from OpenStreetMap and imported in a GIS like QGIS for instance. You can finely set the label properties, select map background, etc.<br>
But you must probably know that already.<br>
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By the way, I have been adding a lot of villages in OpenStreetMap for a poorly covered PNG area, and I was wondering whether OpenStreetMap couldn't be an interesting tool for the cumulative recording of geolinguistic data.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Sylvain<br>
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> Le 9 juil. 2020 à 08:43, Nick Thieberger <<a href="mailto:thien@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">thien@unimelb.edu.au</a>> a écrit :<br>
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> I'm looking for someone to create print-ready maps of placenames. I can make online maps in google earth or google maps, but I need a person or software that will allow 200 labels to be legible on a small map. Any pointers gratefully received,<br>
> <br>
> Nick<br>
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