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On 05/13/2010 06:26 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Robert
Martinez <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:mail@mray.de">mail@mray.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello
OpenStreetMappers,<br>
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I would love to offer a special contribution to the project: a new logo!<br>
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I hope the community (you) will give me some feedback and possibly<br>
help me to get the launch done.<br>
If there is any hoop to jump through let me know.<br>
If there has to be a competition, consider this my contribution.<br>
If I don't reach the right people via this mail, let me know.<br>
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Here is my blogpost: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://freegital.de/osm-logo-proposal" target="_blank">http://freegital.de/osm-logo-proposal</a><br>
Here is the presentation:<br>
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href="http://mray.de/sites/default/files/logoproposal_big.html"
target="_blank">http://mray.de/sites/default/files/logoproposal_big.html</a><br>
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Keep up the great work on this amazing project,<br>
and thank you very much for any feedback.<br>
<br>
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<div>I quite like the logo. It adapted very nicely to a derivation I
made for my upcoming Minneapolis mapping party:</div>
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href="http://www.mapminnesota.org/osm-mn.jpg">http://www.mapminnesota.org/osm-mn.jpg</a></div>
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<div>I'm not sure I could change your suggested logo to make it
unique to my area and still retain links back to OSM to identify with
the greater cause.</div>
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having a real map as part of the logo offers some nice opportunities
indeed!<br>
But there is a number of inherent problems with actual map data inside
the logo, which is why I discarded any of my designs containing it:<br>
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- as Steve said already - there is too much going on inside there.<br>
- then there is the issue with recognition, almost nobody would
recognize certain elements clearly (as well as a certain outline)<br>
- scaling makes it impossible to retain the nice details you want to
apply to the logo<br>
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my approach would be to use other means like typography to indicate
association.<br>
The free font would make this very easy to create a variation like this:<br>
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*logo*<br>
OpenStreetMap<br>
-Minnesota-<br>
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and then maybe use a certain color that you are already using on your
project homepage.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Robert<br>
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