Make Your Own Tourist Map

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  • datadoubleconfirm

    Simple datasets and notebooks for data visualization, statistical analysis and modelling - with write-ups here: http://projectosyo.wix.com/datadoubleconfirm.

  • Next, I needed location data for MRT stations. These were sourced here.

  • Openstreetmap

    The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap

  • I finally looked at some online tourist maps, but they were more focused on the shopping districts, and the resolution was too low to print out and still legible. I’m a GIS Analyst- I make maps for a living! I can create a map which meets my requirements. I’m documenting those steps so you can also make one for your future travels. I’ll be using QGIS and open data to make this. For Inspiration, I looked here. This shows you how to get a symbology like Google Maps from OSM data. I used this as my base map.

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  • gdal

    GDAL is an open source MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats.

  • Using GDAL, I exported the data for my area of interest to a GeoPackage using the following command –

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