Creating my own custom tiles in PNG

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Hi OSM,

Firstly - thanks for a really cool service :sunglasses:

I really need some help from you experts. :slight_smile: I’ve spent the day reading up on OSM in your wiki as well as articles on the internet. However I think my “problem” is a bit odd and I have not been able to find an answer for it.

What I would like to do is to create custom PNG images for each and every municipality (city) in my home country. Theese images will later be used in PDFs and I will overlay them with POI:s from my own DB.

If I understand this correct, I can download the OSM “database” from this archive: http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/
I then need some sort of tool that can render custom image tiles, found here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software/Desktop
The software will have to allow me to specify height, width (output) as well as bouderys (or center long,lat + width& height) - It should also preferably be scriptable (non gui?) as there are hundreds of municipalitys.

Could this be done? Am I on the right track?

Thanks!

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My first hint goes to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maperitive

I heard that it is scriptable via some language?

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Hi stephan75, thanks for pointing me into the right direction. I’ve started laborating with Maperitive now and I think this could be it - it’s really powerful!

Is there a list with all rules that applies for Maperitive? I can’t find any online…

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I know only the documentaion via http://maperitive.net/ … or ask at their googlegroups mailinglist, it seems to be quite active there.