<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Great idea, I was just thinking that we need to add something exciting and new that promotes OSGeo. The OSGeo live disk certainly does that, but this would place more emphasis on data/art/style. I know there is a large segment within OSGeo that would like to focus more on education and academia - documenting how some of these examples are put together could possibly focus on that.<div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 28, 2012, at 7:51 AM, "Michael P. Gerlek" <<a href="mailto:mpg@flaxen.com">mpg@flaxen.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Barry:<br><br>This is the coolest idea I've heard in a long time.<br><br>ESRI does a yearly coffee-table book for Arc-generated maps, the various satellite companies make calendars every year with their best hi-res shots... We should play the game too. <br><br>Count me in, I'll volunteer to help.<br><br>.mpg<br><br>On Jul 28, 2012, at 4:33 AM, Barry Rowlingson <<a href="mailto:b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk">b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Do you think an atlas of beautiful maps produced with open-source<br>technology (software and data) could be made? Here's what I was<br>thinking:<br><br>* Put out a proposal for beautiful cartography, stunning maps, and<br>insightful visualisations done with OpenSource applications and/or<br>Open Data.<br><br>* Collect map proposals as images on a flickr group:<br><a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/osgeomaps/">http://www.flickr.com/groups/osgeomaps/</a><br><br>* Get enough, have a community vote/expert opinion for the best 50 or so.<br><br>* Get high-res or vector versions of the winners.<br><br>* Get authors to write a note for the book, explaining the software,<br>the techniques, and the impact of their work.<br><br>* Edit them into a glossy colour book, publish on a publish-on-demand<br>site (eg lulu.com).<br><br>* Give free copies to the authors of the top ten voted maps or maybe<br>all the ones included (I'll pay for these unless someone wants to<br>sponsor it).<br><br>* Release the PDF under an open license. Of course.<br><br>* Profit!! [By selling copies on lulu at a small premium for OSGeo]<br><br>I don't think the production effort is very much, I just wonder if<br>enough people are producing maps that will look good in A4 or larger<br>(we're all about the web these days, right?) and if publicity can be<br>sustained enough to get 50 nice maps. The timeline would be set so we<br>have lots of glossy copies of these sitting around for sale at FOSS4G<br>2013.<br><br>Good idea? Or will we just get 45 maps which are stamen.com<br>watercolour backgrounds with some points pasted on? There is a<br>perception which I think we've all heard that Open Source GIS packages<br>can't do cartography, but with a little help from Inkscape I've seen<br>some great-looking maps on posters at conferences.<br><br>ESRI used to (still do?) produce an Arc/Info atlas (I have a vague<br>memory of something A3-size in our GIS research lab 20 years ago) of<br>maps - surely we can do something like that now. Obviously I'm<br>sticking my hand up to do the work for this, my concern is purely<br>whether we'd get enough entries. I'd like the bar to be quite high.<br>Most of the work is going to be done by the mappers themselves.<br><br>Shoot.<br><br>Barry<br><br>-- <br>blog: http://geospaced.blogspot.com/<br>web: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings<br>web: http://www.rowlingson.com/<br>twitter: http://twitter.com/geospacedman<br>pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacedman<br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br>Discuss@lists.osgeo.org<br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss<br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>