Greets!As the title say, i’m gettin a view from 50km to 100km in one zoom out, when i’d need a view at aproximately 60 km. How could i select precisely the range of the view please?
If you’re referring to the Standard layer at https://www.openstreetmap.org, then you can only zoom in full steps because the map tiles (raster tiles) are rendered at levels that divide each lower zoom tile into four pieces. The Shortbread and MapTiler OMT layers use vector tiles, so they are theoretically not limited to discrete zoom levels, but the https://www.openstreetmap.org page uses Leaflet to display the map, which does not allow partial zoom levels.
As sai by @pkoby, use a map rednerer that allow fractional zoom level, then, let’s say you have #map=12 as zoom level, replace it with something like #map=11.75 to zoom a bit out.
Thxs to your replies. Any link to a map renderer?
As with anytime one wants to select a map, a lot depends on what exactly it is that one wants to view on it. A map for naval navigation is going to look different and emphasize different things than one for car navigation or for seeing the playgrounds in one’s neighborhood.
But, for some examples of some maps that use OpenStreetMap data, and allow for fractional zooms:
If you say more about what you’re looking for in a map, someone may be able to give you more specific advice.
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As said before : openstreetmap.org, choose Shortbread or MapTiler OMT, to mention two examples, @PeterCooperJr gave others that need no trick to zoom smoothly.
Every web map that you see uses some sort of library that converts the raw data into something that you can browse as a map. If you want fractional zooms, you need a map using vector data, and the most common way of doing that is probably MapLibre. Americana Map is probably the most well known map that uses that (and arguably the most complete in terms of achieving its goals with very few “rough edges”), but there are plenty of others.
When you zoom in and out you’ll see that the values in the URL bar change. An example URL is https://americanamap.org/#map=4.33/41.76/-92.1. The first of those numbers is a zoom level, and the next two are the latitude and longitude of the centre. You’re not limited to pressing “zoom in” or “zoom out” - you can actually overtype the URL, so that https://americanamap.org/#map=4.34/41.76/-92.1 is very slightly more zoomed in than the previous example.
This reply to another thread might add a bit of context: Looking for the Pacific Ocean - #14 by SafwatHalaby
Basically, OpenStreetMap is a project upon which other products/apps/projects are made.
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I’m understanding OSM a bit better now. Actually, i want to screenshot several countries for a 2D game in the making with redot, to be used as maps for the player/traveller. It needs to display accurately town, borders and relief, with a clear view of the area, without being cluttered with markers, routes and so on.
I managed to pinpoint the elevation of americana map, but there’s still some clutter that i can’t seem to remove from the map, and most of the names are in english. I’d like them to be in native language. And maplibre, sorry, couldn’t find how to open the map. Or how do i use Shortbread or MapTiler OMT with OSM*?*
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=4/41.76/-92.10&layers=SN
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=4/41.76/-92.10&layers=VN
daisplay the same place as @SomeoneElse has shown on Americana Map but with Shortbread and MapTiler OMT.
I don’t think that the main vector maps on osm.org support fractional zooms yet - though that will change.
Okokok, thxs to you!
If you’re trying to build your own single exported map with OSM data, the wiki has a lot of options (I’d start by looking at the Rendering and OSM on Paper pages), though I don’t know if there’s a good opinionated “Here’s what you should use”. I’d probably use QGIS for that sort of thing myself, though mainly to try to teach myself more about how to use that particular tool. Maperitive and uMap are a couple of tools I’ve bookmarked to look into for making maps but I haven’t really played with them much myself. At one point I used the export to SVG in the “share” tab of the main map and then brought it into Inkscape and deleted the things I didn’t want, which worked alright but that was probably more of a pain and not the best approach. Hopefully others have better more specific suggestions for you.
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Cheers, but i made it the simple way for now, with tracetrack topo layer. could have been a bit more accurate, but that’ll do. Thxs a lot!
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A tool I like to use for this is nakarte.me, which has a print option in the bottom left. You can even select the detail level independent from the scale (from level 7 to 18) to make small low detail maps or large detailed ones.
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