After a long time of testing, I found the best way to create free perfect maps for upcoming ultralight trekking tours or for hiking.
Here are the links and steps from the video in short form:
1. Download MOBAC in the current version: sourceforge.net/projects/mobac/
2. Create a folder and unpack MOBAC there (WinRAR).
3. Get the planned route as a .GPX file and move it into the MOBAC folder.
4. Download the appropriate map section for the route from www.openandromaps.org/downloa... and unzip the files into the folder as well.
5. Download the Elevate map style from www.openandromaps.org/kartenl... (select manual download) and also move it into the folder.
6. In the MOBAC folder there is a subfolder "mapsources". Create a new text document in the folder and paste this content: pastebin.com/11yKLdyH
Replace "D:\MOBAC" by this with your folder path to the folder.
Replace "Germany_Mid_oam.osm.map" with the name of your downloaded map section.
Then save the text document with "Save As" as "ElevateMap.xml". (Pay attention to the file extension: .txt is wrong, .xml is correct)
8. Start MOBAC with the .exe file. Select "ElevateMap" from the list at the very bottom of the bar on the left at "Map Source". 9.
9. Under "Zoom Levels" remove all check marks and add a check mark only for 16.
10. Under "Atlas Content" delete all layers / atlas and select "Paper Atlas (PDF)" under "New".
On the top left of the map, directly to the right of the zoom slider, there is a drop-down box that is set to "Grid Disabled" by default: Set "Grid Zoom 16" there. 12.
Next to it, uncheck "WGS 84 Grid" and "Ruler". 13.
At the bottom right, click on "Load GPX" and import the downloaded .GPX file of the planned route. 14.
Then click on "Tools" then "Settings" in the upper right corner and select the following settings in the "Paper Atlas" tab:
Size: Default A4 with Landscape enabled
Margins: Set all to 0,50cm
Additions: Remove all 4 check marks
Advanced: Resolution: 300, Overlap: 0,50cm, Compression 0, Crop 10%
15: The program is now set up so that if you draw a rectangle on the map that is exactly 13x9 boxes in size, it will perfectly fill an entire A4 page at 300 DPI. It does not matter in which zoom level you are in the map view: It is always printed in level 16 and the grid is always the same size.
You start at the start of your route, which is marked in red, and draw a 13x9 rectangle around it, so that the route is shown in a space-saving way.
Once you have marked the first section, press "Add Selection" in the middle of the bar on the left to add a new layer. To make it visible, right-click on "Layer" and select "Display selected areas". 17.
After that, the next section adjacent to it is selected again and added again. Since with every "Add Selection" click a new layer is created, you have to drag the section from the newly created layer into the upper one and delete the newly created layer afterwards, otherwise you will get a separate folder for each section later. Do this until the entire route is filled with the 13x9 rectangles. 18.
Finally, rename the individual sections to the respective page number: Mark the first layer, press F2 (or right click "rename") and write "1", "2", "3" etc. from top to bottom. (Confirm with Enter) So in the end everything should look like this:
19. for a later reworking or correcting you can still save your profile in the lower left bar, so that the sections are also preserved after program restart.
20. if one clicks then on "Create Atlas" one receives after a short computation time in the "Open Atlas Folder" a perfect DIN A4 300 DPI file selected map section. (For me they are about 22mb per page).
To add page numbers and to create a printable .PDF document, download the tool PDFsam Basic (pdfsam.org). At "Merge" drag in all created .PDF map sections and check the option "Add a footer" at the bottom. 22:
22. Click on Start to get the finished PDF document.
00:00 - Introduction
02:47 - Installation
07:46 - Setup
11:30 - Map pages
15:48 - PDF creation
17:34 - Results
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