{"id":138,"date":"2015-01-09T14:02:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T14:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/?p=138"},"modified":"2015-01-09T14:25:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T14:25:25","slug":"diy-guidebook-brainstorming-and-project-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"DIY Guidebook &#8211; Brainstorming and Project Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rob and I get many guests in our place in Berlin. We have a pile of guidebooks, museum pamphlets, and other stuff for people to look through while they&#8217;re here, but I like to give them a personalized guidebook with stuff I really like in it. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moleskine.com\/en\/collections\/model\/product\/city-notebook-berlin\">Moleskine City Notebooks<\/a> before, but they have the persistent habit of walking off. This is a paaaain, especially after I&#8217;ve entered all kinds of information into the book by hand. Also, I always make mistakes when writing in the books &#8211; apartment on the wrong side of the street, wrong labels on the pages, tram lines going the wrong place &#8211; and there&#8217;s no eraser for my felt tipped pens.<\/p>\n<p>Modern technology means I shouldn&#8217;t have to do this! I will make a little booklet out of A4 folded once to give to guests. This way they can write in it and take it home and I can generate custom maps if I want.<\/p>\n<p>Project plan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>make maps including index overlay in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qgis.org\/en\/site\/\">QGIS<\/a><\/li>\n<li>generate text pages in LaTeX<\/li>\n<li>use LaTeX or some other plugin to generate a pdf for printing and binding (proper page ordering)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What I&#8217;d eventually like to do is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>write a script so I can have a booklet be generated automatically (query QGIS, export to image, concatenate to pdf)<\/li>\n<li>have map layers be selectable in the script (some people don&#8217;t like coffee, some people are really into transit history, etc)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some problems I&#8217;ve already encountered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>QGIS isn&#8217;t the most stable program. I have some paths and nodes imported from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\">OSM<\/a>, but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s an unreasonable amount? Anyway, being patient and saving often seems to be enough to keep me from losing too much data.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/hub.qgis.org\/projects\/openlayers\/wiki\">OpenLayers<\/a> plugin acts a little strange when exporting maps. The resolution of the exported maps is usually pretty crap, and sometimes the maps are offset from where they should be. I&#8217;d like to solve this one by using a georeferenced image \/ images at useful resolutions.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t seem to understand how the scale bars in the exported images work. They seem to be wrong most of the time, which suggests I&#8217;m doing something wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob and I get many guests in our place in Berlin. We have a pile of guidebooks, museum pamphlets, and other stuff for people to look through while they&#8217;re here, but I like to give them a personalized guidebook with stuff I really like in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[22,23,19,21,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discontinuity.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}