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 Takes some imagination to do the zig-zag fold in your head but I think you'll cope ;-) The design has been done in Inkscape, and all the raw material and a README file is in SVN under /misc/pr_material/german_flyer_2008-01/ so if anyone wants to do something similar for their area of interest, just re-use anything you want. I'll even translate the text for you if there's interest. Bye Frederik PS: I like Inkscape a lot, but whenever I do stuff for printing I run into those nasty CMYK problems. Inkscape creates RGB PDFs, printers want CMYK PDFs. You can auto-convert them but without a calibrated screen or printer you never know how it's going to look like in print. I guess this can only be solved by expensive equipment - I ended up paying 50 Euros extra for a print designer to make me a proof on his inkjet printer... 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." PPPS: Just kidding to get Richard's attention ;-) -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00.09' E008°23.33' _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
