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Happy International Print Day 2017!
October 18, 2017 is International Print Day. I am happy to celebrate my love of print with you! This year’s theme, is the User Experience.
Printed maps provide a great User Experience!
The spatial awareness you get from the big picture of a large printed map, combined with the ability to crunch down into the details with your computer or mobile phone, when used together, gives you the best of both worlds for the best User Experience!
Here’s a quick video with just a few of the maps we have printed in the last few months. Enjoy. #IPD17 #PrintUX
What is a Map? Maps Provide the Big Picture
What is a map?
A map is a way to present information on music, history, science, and the arts in new ways. A map is a tool that helps you make connections between different places; to connect the dots.
What is a map?
A map is Like the International Map Industry Association: IMIA is all about the business of maps. IMIA helps you make connections between different people in the map business.
What is a map?
A map is about how to make a living; a creative endeavor to put food on the table for us and our employees. Printing maps was my Daddy’s and Granddaddy’s business. It is mine still.
What is a map?
A map is something that my Daddy and Granddaddy made at work. Every morning they went away. Every evening they came home. Sometimes, with a great big printed paper map. It is to put on the wall, a gift for friends and neighbors. A map can be an artistic expression and a marketing tool.
Some may say that the printed map is done for, but it is a mistake to see it as a print vs. digital media competition. The greatest result is achieved when the two are used together. The printed map provides the “big picture” and the resulting spatial awareness shows you where to crunch down for detail using the mobile device. Without the digital, you lose the enormous resources of the internet. Without the printed map you don’t know what to do with the mobile device. Electronic devices are not replacing printed products, but they complement each other, and make each more effective.
This post was originally published on the IMIA Blog
With respect to maps it’s a mistake to see it as a print vs mobile media competition. The greatest result is achieved when the two are used together. The printed map provides the “big picture” and the resulting spatial awareness shows you where to crunch down for detail using the mobile device. Without the mobile device you lose the enormous resources of the internet. Without the printed map you don’t know what to do with the mobile device. A salesman once explained it to me as follows: He had covered sales territories using both printed maps and using his gps. In both instances he could get from point A to B and back again, but when only using gps, he never really knew where he was. That sounds to me like missed opportunities.
Yesterday SI Live published an article titled: “Paper trail: Staten Island lawmakers push legislatures to go paperless”. It contains several misleading environmental arguments on going paperless in favor of electronic communication, including this statement by the author:
“Whole forests are destroyed to comply with this quaint and, in this day and age, entirely unnecessary tradition. It’s a colossal and, frankly, shameful waste in a time when government is supposed to be more environmentally conscious. “
Below I address the main points, but I would also encourage people in the print and paper industries of NY State to voice their concerns to:
- U.S. Congressman Michael Grimm
- City Councilman James Oddo
- Assemblyman William Magnarelli
- State Senator Andrew Lanza
- Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis
As a private forest owner who has made his living in the forest and paper industry, this type of misinformation really disappoints me. I wish that more people…
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