[talk-au] posters/banners

[b.schulz.10 at scu.edu.au]

Well, what information do you want it to get across? Do we want "OSM Australia" to become some form of semi-official name for OSM activities/groups in Australia? Or do we just want a sign which says "There's an OpenStreetMap mapping party meeting here, this is what you look for to find us" in which case the "Australia" is redundant as we're  in Australia already.

I certainly think that re-using other OSM logos etc is an excellent idea though as it maintains brand consistency in the online->real world transition.

It's probably worth thinking about how this will be seen, too. For instance say you're driving through a town you've never been to while looking for the mapping party meeting place. If you see that poster the text in "penstreetmap" gets lost very easily in front of the quasi-cammo pattern background.

It may work better if the same concept is used with this symbol for the "O": http://svn.openstreetmap.org/misc/images/osm_withtext.svg and then "penStreetMap" next to it, as that way the text is much clearer to read and the form of the magnifying glass is easier to spot while trying to drive.

Lastly, whatever gets written on it please try to maintain font consistency :). Serif fonts are great when you're reading bulk text but they aren't used nearly as often on banners as sans serif fonts.

I'll have a go at sketching something up tomorrow night, after my current assignment is handed in.

----- Original Message -----
From: John Smith <delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009 3:20 pm
Subject: Re: posters/banners
To: b.schulz.10 at scu.edu.au, Ash Kyd <ash at kyd.com.au>

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> I was digging about and I found this SVG image...
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> http://svn.openstreetmap.org/misc/images/osm_button.svg
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> I whacked the word "Australia" under it and made a very big png:
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> http://maps.bigtincan.com/data/osm_australia_banner.png
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