The primary differences are choice of colorscheme and the fact that the OSM examples are targetted at screen DPI and the paper map was probably intended to be wall mounted.
That's not a limitation of OSM, you can target different resolutions and print to large paper too, it's just not as common. Here's an example:
http://mike.teczno.com/notes/osm-us-terrain-layer.html
http://mike.teczno.com/notes/osm-us-terrain-layer/foreground...
Though those are US only, similar tech is available for worldwide maps.
Compare:
http://www.library.ethz.ch/exhibit/imhof/images/d1.1.jpg
http://hikebikemap.de/?zoom=9&lat=46.58402&lon=7.946...
http://hikebikemap.de/?zoom=9&lat=46.58402&lon=7.946...
The primary differences are choice of colorscheme and the fact that the OSM examples are targetted at screen DPI and the paper map was probably intended to be wall mounted.
That's not a limitation of OSM, you can target different resolutions and print to large paper too, it's just not as common. Here's an example:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:3274048625_815c60625...