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I am trying to create a photobook with Aperture, but their maps are highly inaccurate (lots of lakes and even the whole Caspian sea is missing!). Online maps like Google Maps or Openstreetmap work great for websites and screens, but provide low resolution (72 dpi).

Is there a simple way to generate a high DPI (e.g. 300 dpi) image for printing from these sources?

Note: I'd like to preserve the text labels on the map, so simply taking a high resolution screenshot and placing it into a small box doesn't work for me, as labels will come out tiny.

Anton Roslov
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After some digging around, I came to a few options:

  1. http://www.openstreetmap.org/ offers an export function with PDF and SVG. I can export to PDF and then take screenshot to create a small image with suitable DPI. Also see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_on_Paper for information on print maps.
  2. Openstreetmap labels are still small, so I've used http://maps.cloudmade.com/ with a custom style (no labels), took a large screenshot and labeled my map post export with places I needed and with suitable (for printing) font
  3. Use the proposal suggested by cybernard with Google API (but the copyright / terms of use question requires more research, and probably depends on the exact usage)

And I've ended up using solution #2. The whole process was not very user friendly, even with just a handful of small maps to produce, so I really hope that Apple can fix their print maps in Aperture.

Anton Roslov
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