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ScalableMaps has some useful tips on how to improve performance of Illustrator when working with maps.

Most maps were produced using Maperitive.

is a library of vector maps in SVG and AI formats.

How to get Open Street Map data into Adobe Illustrator with MAPublisher.

Various other approaches may be possible if you convert via other formats such SVG External links You can do a find and replace to get rid of layers you don't need.

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In Potlatch, you can export to pdf and then open the file in Illustrator. Then, it's quite easy to scale and synchronize your layers in Illustrator.

Filter your data as vector layers for Buildings (1), Roads, Waters, Forest, etc., from the lines layer (roads, waters etc.) and multipolygons layer (buildings, landuse, railways etc.).The current layer is now ready for a new filtering assertion.

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Now to come back to the original and full current layer, select the current layer, go to the filter window and press the 'Erase' button.

'AutoCadDXF' format is a standard format to import vector layers in Illustrator. This new layer, displayed as 'identities' above the current layer, is now ready to be imported in Illustrator (5). Layers -> Save As (mandatory because the SCR must be check because for unknown reasons the SCR of your project changes from time to time), and fill the pop up window with the format AutoCadDXF (2), the SCR of your choice (3) and the sub area you need in decimal degrees or UTM meters (4).

Save each of your filtered layer as a vector layer with:.

Now the current layer is filtered, and you must save it. When you are satisfied with your filtering, click OK. Use test button to know the number of entities of the selection and have a look to the main window of Qgis to see what really happens to your map. You can add other filtering assertion by the operator 'OR'. The field is displayed in the third window, then key press '=' and double click on the value you need. To enter a filtering assertion, double click on one field.

The filter window is easy, there is fields and values columns.Then after a selection of one layer, by a right click access to the filter window. All your selection of OSM layers is displayed in the layer window.Enter the OSM data in Qgis Wien as a new vector layer (all can be imported : points, lines, multilinestrings, other_relations, etc, but some layers are void).At the end of the download, close the window. Then, enter in decimal degrees the area you need for your project (North, West, East, South).

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Download your data directly in Qgis from OSM servers: Vector -> Open Street Map -> Download OSM data.In QGIS you can export via AutoCad DXF format into illustrator as follows: To view these (in Illustrator CS), open the Attributes palette to its fullest extent.Įach way is rendered as a single Illustrator path. The keys/values are stored as a 'comment'. However, to help you, the tags (keys/values) are brought through into the file, so that you can see (for example) the name of the road. The file is wholly unstyled and unlabelled: the idea is that you make the cartographic styling decisions yourself. The resulting Illustrator file is version 6, which can still be opened in any modern version of Illustrator. (for large areas) an OpenStreetMap SQL database running on your own machine - typically, a MySQL database created from planet.osm by or similar.

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Perl and the Geo::Coordinates::OSGB module, plus a few others you almost certainly have already.The script - or - an updated version of (February 2013) that supports osm files edited by JOSM.By editing the script, you can determine which tags go to which layers.

Ways are grouped in Illustrator layers according to their tags. Given a bounding box, the script takes all the ways that pass through that area, and draws them (in a Mercator projection). You can then work on this in Illustrator to produce a finished map. The script takes OpenStreetMap data and produces an unstyled Adobe Illustrator version 6 file (.ai). Maperitive tutorial on exporting to Adobe Illustrator: Generating OSM Map For Adobe Illustrator In Seven Easy Steps A sample SVGZ map of the center of Dublin: ( NOTE: compressed SVGZ files cannot be opened by browser use Adobe Illustrator instead). It separates map features into SVG layers, takes care of not duplicating shapes and also renders text as normal letters (and not as graphic paths like Mapnik does). Maperitive can produce high quality (and small-size) SVG rendering specially designed for importing into Adobe Illustrator. Screenshot of Adobe Illustrator showing a Maperitive-generated SVG map.