Question: Can anyone recommend open source map-making / site design software? (slrpnk.net)

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I'm looking for software for making small-scale maps / designs. Say for example I wanted to map out a small-ish plot of land with various markers indicating features of the site. Another requirement is that is must have the capability to depict elevation. Others have recommended map-making software for dungeons and dragons, but of the ones I can find they are either paid / subscription models or they strictly adhere to a grid system that makes it impossible to use for my purposes.

Does anyone have some good recommendations?

Edit: It doesn't have to be a single piece of software necessarily. If anyone has recommendations for a particular workflow (like for example if you know some good open source drawing software I could use to draw over the top of a topographic map) I'm interested in that as well.

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[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 minutes ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

OpenStreetMap and their editors are great and I use them a lot, but if you really want to have great flexibility with your map design QGIS is Open Source

Here's a video on how to use it

[-] tapdattl@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editors#Choice_of_editors

Something like these?

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago

Thank you, this is a great resource. Some of these look promising.

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

You can use CalTopo's print pdf to print that OSM data too

[-] jlow@beehaw.org 2 points 1 hour ago

Would https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/ work for you? It's Osm plus markers etc(?) you can put on top of it. Not sure if you can make it work offline/selfhosted. I used it for marking interesting locations in a city some friends wanted to visit that I know quite well.

[-] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 3 points 2 hours ago

You can check out the toolkit over at Permapeople.org, though I'm unsure exactly how open the codebase is. I do know they're hoping to make it community run in the future, and that the devs share pretty much whatever is asked of them.

Less in the spirit of your question, but something I've used relatively extensively is the mymaps.google tool. Here's hoping someone with some better answers than me comes along (and I remember to check back) to give additional alternatives