[Openstreetmap] posters

[Andy Robinson]

Tom, that was exactly my cool thought too. But then you need a method to
turn that bespoke offering into a reliably efficient and timely hard copy.
Perhaps a print house might happily take a stream of individual files for
printing. Worth investigating though.

Cheers,
Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: openstreetmap-bounces at vr.ucl.ac.uk [mailto:openstreetmap-
>bounces at vr.ucl.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Carden
>Sent: 01 February 2006 17:50
>To: openstreetmap at vr.ucl.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: [Openstreetmap] posters
>
>On 2/1/06, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> Since the run of posters sold out I've had lots of requests to buy them.
>> I'd like your ideas on the design of a new one and a selling system.
>>
>> The first poster was a limited run, and signed, so we must do something
>> different.
>>
>> This could be an unlimited run, a bit smaller but glossy, or the same
>> size etc. Would be nice to do a map out to the M25 and other cities or
>> all of Europe. It could incorporate street segments too.
>>
>
>How about all different?  Get people to choose a bounding box using
>the tiles interface and then have a "buy poster" button with a choice
>of sizes and a check boxes for GPS, landsat and street segments?  Then
>generate a poster then and there for that query.
>
>> The other thing is the system. Totally swamped writing addresses on
>> poster tubes from emails. Need sticky labels and some system like ebay
>> store or http://www.etsy.com/. Any ideas?
>>
>
>Paypal does shopping carts free doesn't it?
>
>Can do sticky labels in evil proprietary software such as MS Word.
>Really quickly if you have them in a table already.  I did a few
>hundred christmas card labels in about 2 hours including typing from a
>hand-written address book.
>
>Otherwise, at least a basic web-form would save you the job of munging
>various emails into a table first.  If you want to get really
>industrious, Joel Spolsky's article is worth a quick read:
>http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HowToShipAnything.html
>
>Tom.
>
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