Use the command zoom-map-scale 50000 (or another scale if you prefer).Ĩ. Any scale at or under 1:50,000 seems to work (scale of zoom is displayed in the lower left corner of the map). Zoom to a reasonable area (if you try to create a file that is too big, the program will fail). Open the files you just downloaded, all of them at once.ħ.
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If Maperitive is not installed on your computer, download it and install it.Ħ. (Note: If you want to download a large area all in one shot, use one of the mirror sites.)ī. You now have several files containing all the desired data on your computer. Move to another part of the map and repeat until all areas of the map you want in your street atlas are included. osm file generated is stored on your computer.Ĥ. If you need more, use one of the mirror sites.ģ. 50 square miles (5 x 10) seems to work ok. There are limits to how much OpenStreetMap will allow you to download at one time. Microsoft ICE (free of cost download) is optional if you want one big map.Ģ. Needed software: Maperitive (free software) and Easy Poster Printer (free of cost download). There are four major steps: download the data, convert the data to one or more images, merge them (if you want a wall map) into one big image, and then print. The following was done on a 64-bit computer with an Intel i7 CPU at 4 GHz and 16Gb RAM running Windows 10. Building a free (of cost) high-resolution street atlas from OpenStreetMap is a straightforward job, but it requires access to a computer with sufficient memory to handle rather large image files.