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La Mapería is working reasonably well for now. Here are some example maps for your perusal. All of these images link to a rather large PDF that you can print on a medium-format plotter — all of these are printable on a 61 cm wide roll of paper (or one that can put out US Arch D sheets).
Valladolid, Yucatán, México, 1:10,000
Centro de la Ciudad de México, 1:10,000
Ajusco y Sur de la Ciudad de México, 1:50,000
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 1:50,000
Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1:10,000
Walnut Creek, California, USA, 1:50,000
Butano State Park and Pescadero, California, USA, 1:20,000
Provo, Utah, USA, 1:50,000
Nürnberg, Germany, 1:10,000
Karlsruhe, Germany, 1:10,000That last one, for Karlsruhe, is where GUADEC will happen this year, so enjoy!
Next steps
La Mapería exists right now as a Python program that downloads raster tiles from Mapbox Studio. This is great in that I don't have to worry about setting up an OpenStreetMap stack, and I can just worry about the map stylesheet itself (this is the important part!) and a little code to render the map's scale and frame with arc-minute markings.
I would prefer to have a client-side renderer, though. Vector tiles are the hot new thing; in theory I should be able to download vector tiles and render them with Memphis, a Cairo-based renderer. I haven't investigated how to move my Mapbox Studio stylesheet to something that Memphis can use (... or that any other map renderer can use, for that matter).
Also, right now making each map with La Mapería involves extracting geographical coordinates by hand, and rendering the map several times while tweaking it to obtain just the right area I want. I'd prefer a graphical version where one can just mouse around.
Finally, the map style itself needs improvements. It works reasonably well for 1:10,000 and 1:50,000 right now; 1:20,000 is a bit broken but easy to fix. It needs tweaks to map elements that are not very common, like tunnels. I want to make it work for 1:100,000 for full-day or multi-day bike trips, an possibly even smaller scales for motorists and just for general completeness.
So far two of my friends in Mexico have provided pull requests for La Mapería — to fix my not-quite-Pythonic code, and to make the program easier to use the first time. Thanks to them! Contributions are appreciated.