Wow, that is really cool. If I could come with a small feature request, I'd love to see support for open street maps as well. At least for the area around my house OSM has much more detailed maps. Google maps for example doesn't have the road that leads up to my apartment building, since you can't drive on it, while OSM does.
Woodcut Maps: Handcrafted wood-inlay maps, designed by you
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Re: Woodcut Maps: Handcrafted wood-inlay maps, designed by you
#62I might show my ignorance for the complexity of the process here, but here goes: Why is laser cutting from prefabricated digital prints considered "handcrafted"?
Our oboist team member, who hand-carves her own reeds, assembles and finishes each map by hand.
Finally, an oboist who found their burden to be useful in life outside music!
Would be great to see some footage of one of your maps actually being made some time.
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#63To the creators: Great job guys! I just ordered a map as a gift. I would have loved to carve a date or write a few words on the map though.
I found the entire process of ordering a breeze. However, I feel that the payment process should be improved - 1. PayPal forced me to sign into my obsolete paypal account due to same email id. 2. It showed me an annoying advertisement to sign-up for their debit card program. 3. It assumed my address was the shipping address. 4. I did not see an option to send this item as a gift.
I hope you guys keep getting bigger and better.
Re: Woodcut Maps: Handcrafted wood-inlay maps, designed by you
#64Cancun is a "designed" city and the core districts are laid out inspired in Mayan hieroglyphs. This makes terrible urbanism but some pretty sweet woodcut maps. http://woodcutmaps.com/11254
That is amazing. Look at DC, which is the exact same thing - but with masonic symbolism rather than mayan symbolism.
Notice you do not link to a map. Because this is total bullshit. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C._street_design_...
Re: Woodcut Maps: Handcrafted wood-inlay maps, designed by you
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good idea, will do. Right now for simplicity's sake we just have the wood species not affect pricing even though they greatly vary in cost to us. We're coming out with some really gorgeous burled woods soon that are a bit pricier -- we'll probably add variable pricing based on wood species once those choices are available.
Offtopic: Why do you use two accounts on HN, _gabesmed & gabesmed?
No-procast: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3763855
Edit: Longer version: It is because of his noprocast setting.
Re: Woodcut Maps: Handcrafted wood-inlay maps, designed by you
#66Very cool idea; all I can get however is "Sorry, something went wrong. We've been notified and are on the case!" (I'm trying to get maps from France).
I seems that it does not like non-ASCII characters (got the same error when I searched for Swedish cities). Try searching for the English name of your city or, if such a name is not available, a neighboring city that has and then scroll the map to the place you'd like to see.
Re: Woodcut Maps: Handcrafted wood-inlay maps, designed by you
#67Brasília is also a "designed" city, and the woodcut maps are awesome: http://bit.ly/Hi9m09, http://bit.ly/HcBdSB and http://bit.ly/GXK5Lv.
Re: Woodcut Maps: Handcrafted wood-inlay maps, designed by you
#68This is so great. Is your backend set up to do other vector paths besides just map tiles?
Yup. The settings are tuned for maps right now, but we can take any raster image with up to four b&w layers and send it through the same process.
Would it not be possible to render on the client side with html5 canvas to decrease the load on the server?
Re: Woodcut Maps: Handcrafted wood-inlay maps, designed by you
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Our oboist team member, who hand-carves her own reeds, assembles and finishes each map by hand.
Finally, an oboist who found their burden to be useful in life outside music! Would be great to see some footage of one of your maps actually being made some time.
Hand carving your own reeds appears to be a rite of passage as an oboist (my wife plays).
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd like to have a little more control, so I could fit, say, Yosemite Valley in the 5x16 by rotating the map a little.
We can't do rotations..but a hidden pro feature is you can drag the gray frame in the google maps interface to zoom in and out precisely.
The mouse-over pointer change is a well chosen hint and the affordance is fairly obvious. Nicely done.