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Hello,

I’m new to using osm outside of potlatch. What I need to do is essentially be able to export a map into a pdf or illustrator file with only certain layers shown. I would like to keep the map in vector graphics. I only need the roads (and their names), and not really anything else. Is there a way to do this?

Thank you for your help,
Robinson

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have a look to gary68’s Mapgen… Maybe it’s something for you…

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There are no “layers” in OSM (besides from the Layer-Tag), so if you like to have a map showing only specific features you have to generate it by yourself.
If your German is good enough you can also try http://www.openstreetbrowser.org/

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Also have a look at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Exporting_to_Adobe_Illustrator

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Yes, layers was the wrong term I believe. So there is no way to use Potlatch to export the map data with only certain tags?

Thanks for your help I’ll try those suggestions.

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  1. You cannot save any data to your own PC via Potlatch.

  2. Look at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Xapi

  3. Or load the complete data in an editor like JOSM or Merkaartor, delete all unneded elements and save the lokal data in *.osm format.

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Be careful with this method! DO NOT ACCIDENTIALLY HIT “UPLOAD”! This will delete the objects from the database to. Just ignore the warning about unsaved data and close JOSM.

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Since I needed the same functionality I started programming an application to do just that. It’s nowhere near finished yet, but you might want to check if I added exporting yet :wink:

See thread http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=7901