In September 2009, we launched MapOSMatic (http://www.maposmatic.org),
a free web service that allows to render on-demand city maps based on
OpenStreetMap data. Those city maps, divided by squares, are
associated to a street index easing the process of locating a street
on the map.

We are proud to announce today the launch of a new version of
MapOSMatic, which is the result of significant development
efforts. Amongst the new features:

 * The rendering of poster maps is now done on large standard paper
   formats (A3, A2, A1, etc.), automatically choosen depending on the
   size of the city, instead of arbitrarily-sized papers that were
   hard to print. Those poster maps are similar to commercial folded
   maps;

 * The capacity of rendering multi-page maps, where the map and street
   index are split into several pages, for easy printing on regular
   paper formats (A5, A4, US Letter). Those multi-page maps are
   similar to commercial city books;

 * The possibility of choosing between several rendering styles. So
   far, we provide the standard OpenStreetMap.org style, several
   styles provided by MapQuest, and a custom style more suitable for
   printing. In the future, we expect to extend those styles, or even
   to let users provide their own styles;

 * The capacity of selecting any city in the world: in the previous
   versions, we were limited to OpenStreetMap areas of a certain
   administrative level;

 * And many, many other smaller features and improvements: quality of
   the renderings, better user interface to render maps, last OSM
   database update date printed on the map, etc.

MapOSMatic is completely free software, distributed under the terms of
the Affero General Public License v3. The project is available through
Git repositories, has a mailing-list and an IRC channel. For details,
see our About page (http://www.maposmatic.org/about), our wiki
(http://wiki.maposmatic.org) and the Savannah project page
(http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/maposmatic/).

In addition to the launch of this new version, we are also starting a
donation campaign. The project is completely developed and maintained
by volunteers, but we need funding to cover hardware costs and
transportations costs to organize the developer meetings during which
MapOSMatic improvements are implemented (see our blog at
http://news.maposmatic.org). If you appreciate MapOSMatic, do not
hesitate to help us by donating through PayPal on
http://www.maposmatic.org/donate.