Something with more pictures/maps would be OK, but in general a small amount of text in big font is the thing to aim for. People reading posters are like people reading websites, they don't tend to bother with paragraphs...
I don't have any "responsibilities" at SOTM so I'd be happy to submit and put the poster up. I can also have a bit of a look at tweaks to Emir's design in Inkscape. But also, I'm only peripheral to HOT at present, so if anyone else wants to do it, or has more timely/topical poster ideas then please feel free to step in. Here's a quick sketch of a synopsis for the proposal webform: """ The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) applies the principles of open-source and open data sharing towards humanitarian response and economic development. HOT works during the response, recovery, and preparedness phases to help create and maintain free geographic data and make it available for use by all. This poster gives an overview of HOT, including the specialist tools used and the workflow of an "activation" in which humanitarian organisations, OSM mappers and local communities work together. """ Dan 2013/8/24 Harry Wood <[email protected]>: > yeah. An A1 poster is massive, so *can* have a lot of detail but I guess it > depends. If you were designing it for a bus shelter you'd still want few > words written big. > > But I was imaging something more like this one which has some quite intricate > details and small text: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Bestofosm-2010-small.png > > Never mind what I was imagining though... someone should contact the > organisers and put the question to them: > http://2013.stateofthemap.org/info/call-presentations/ > > Harry > > > > ________________________________ > From: Michael Duprey <[email protected]> > To: Dan S <[email protected]> > Cc: Harry Wood <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, 24 August 2013, 20:54 > Subject: Re: [HOT] Designing a big HOT poster > > > > I'm with Dan in agreeing that the current poster is well-suited to an A1 > format. My only suggestion would be some slight polishing of the typography > and margins. > > Michael > On Saturday, August 24, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Dan S wrote: > IMHO that poster design has about ideal density for A1 portrait. >>Good-looking too. I certainly wouldn't add more text. Go with that, is >>my 2p. >> >> >>Dan >> >> >>2013/8/24 Harry Wood <[email protected]>: >>I'm wondering if HOT should put in a poster design for this: >>http://2013.stateofthemap.org/info/call-presentations/ >>> >>> >>>The conference organisers are offering to get it printed A1 size for free I >>>think. Deadline this coming Wednesday >>> >>> >>>I'm just throwing that idea out there. Don't have time to work on it myself. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>This could be a good task for someone who's into graphics design. You >>>wouldn't necessarily need to be attending the conference. We probably get to >>>keep the printed poster (not sure), or at least we'd get some photos of >>>people admiring it, so ...worth doing. >>> >>> >>>We have a nice HOT poster design by Emir: >>>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Hot-poster.svg >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>Could just submit that, but... printed A1 size I imagine a poster might >>>look better with more details on it (e.g. landscape, with double the number >>>photos/text/maps) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>Harry >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>HOT mailing list >>>[email protected] >>>http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>HOT mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
