[OSM-talk] OSM flyer

[Jo]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    we (that's Y.T. and the folks on talk-de) have created an OSM flyer
> that we can hand out to folks who ask us what we're doing. 
>
> The flyer is DIN A7 sized (74mm wide and 105mm high) and has 8 pages
> (8 pages sounds a lot but it's just one stripe of paper 105mm high and
> 296mm wide, zig-zag folded three times). We're trying to get the most
> important things across: Look how cool we are, and it's all free, and
> this is something else than free as in beer, and this is how we do it.
>
> We have printed 5,000 copies (it's not really expensive - 200 Euros
> for the lot, and some online printers would have done it for 150) and
> we'll try to distribute them widely within the community so that every
> mapper has a few of them with him when he's on the road.
>
> Here's how it looks like:
>
> front page - http://svn.openstreetmap.org/misc/pr_material/german_flyer_2008-01/osmflyer1.png
> rear page - http://svn.openstreetmap.org/misc/pr_material/german_flyer_2008-01/osmflyer2.png
>   
The flyer looks great. I might look into producing a Dutch version of 
it, if there is interest from Dutch and Belgian mappers.
> PPS: If you read the first letter of each paragraph in sequence, they
> spell out "P.o.t.l.a.t.c.h.m.u.s.t.d.i.e."
>   
That's not very nice. (I like Potlatch by the way, I use it just as much 
as JOSM. Some things are just a lot easier with it. Splitting circular 
roads for instance and tracing imagery)
> PPPS: Just kidding to get Richard's attention ;-)
>
>   
I checked and it's also not true... Would be a bit weird to have an 
English Easter egg in a German text...

Polyglot