Name areas like “4-west”, where 4 is a pie piece number, and “west” helps a mapper to locate themselves.
#Walking papers tour 2017 install#
Install the “Walking Papers” plugin from the official QGIS repository.
All you have to do is sketch the pie, and the plugin does the rest. It is the simplest way to prepare good walking papers for your mapping party. One thing after another, and now I have automated almost everything, fixing a few issues in QGIS on the way. Having discovered the Python Console in QGIS, I started experimenting with automating a few tasks. I started writing another guide with QGIS and GDAL and all the new tech, but it quickly grew to 22 steps. Turned out, making walking papers with it is really simple and straightforward, albeit not without issues. I had always been recommending QGIS for printing maps, and I decided to try it myself. This year I finally got fed up with reanimating that old renderer, which doesn’t work perfectly on Linux, and tried something else. It involved using Maperitive, Inkscape and some proprietary software. While I admire the Field Papers and MapOSMatic fork improvements over the past years, a good walking paper is more than that.įor a long time I have been using a 28-step process to prepare walking papers for my mapping parties. But all I’ve seen were new ways to print tiles or atlases. Made a blog post here in 2014 with some thoughts. I have talked publicly about improvements to walking papers since at least SotM 2013.
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