Sometimes I hold events, and I want to put a little map on the flyer. It's a real pain to manually deal with some SVG of a larger map area, and clip it and style it to fit the space. Does anyone know of any solutions like this for this kind of problem?
A couple of years ago I rendered some maps in QGIS using OpenStreetMap data.
It was a complicated beast of functionality but if you learn the right 2 % of buttons it becomes a very competent tool for creating exactly the maps you need. It gives you the tools to show exactly the terrain features you care about (rivers, roads, streets, highways, trails, forests, buildings, railways, etc.) and you can choose to style them however you want.