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    Quote Originally Posted by seforimlover View Post
    Hello,

    For a book I am working on I would like to download a high resolution map (containing roads and rivers and so on, but not a topographical map) of central Europe (Germany, Poland, Lithuania), where I can remove all the English text and replace with Hebrew text using Photoshop or similar program. Google maps provides precisely the sort of map I need, unfortunately, I don't think it enables one to download book worthy (600 d.p.i. at the very least) images.

    Thank you very much in advance to anyone who can point me in the right direction.

    Yehuda
    Well, if you want public domain (so you can do whatever you want with it with no restriction) geographic data, Natural Earth is the place to go. The only issue is that you'll be getting data in the Shapefile format so you'll need a GIS to read it, style it, and export it to a graphics format. You'll also have to put it in a suitable projection

    If you want to try this, download QuantumGIS, go to Natural Earth and download the layers you want, and try reading this tutorial.

    As for the projection, load the shapefile I've attached as the first layer in the QGIS project and that should set the project projection to a nice conic projection centred in western Poland. Then activate "on the fly projection" (described in the tutorial) and everything you load should be displayed in that projection.
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