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Can you create large map images from tiles that can be turned into a poster?


Yes. Stitching the tiles together is relatively easy. Depending on the specific tiling scheme, you may be able to do so without any depth of knowledge in geography.

That said mapnik [1], the rendering engine used to generate tiles, is a general purpose geographic data renderer. You could use tilemill as a tool to generate the map style then use mapnik directly to render your map at any pixel or geographic dimensions desired.

[1] http://mapnik.org/


Yup, it looks like there are options to export to svg and pdf (among other formats).




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