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Clever zoomable map on paper
- flatline 17y agoCool, but good luck getting that thing folded back the right way. One wrong fold by some incautious user and your zooming days are done.
- andrewljohnson 17y agoI find pretty much all paper maps work that way.
- romland 17y agoPaper imitates digital! The idea is clever and it's a little surprising how no one did this before, especially when considering how much about reading maps consists of folding the damn thing! I've been cursed at more than once because I didn't fold a map the right way. And like andrewljohnson said in this thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1074300 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1074300), the complication of folding could hardly have been the limiting factor of coming up with this. :)
- nirmal 17y agoI feel the urge to figure out how this map is made and then write up an instructables on the matter. EDIT: It turned out to be simpler than I thought. I'm going to make a mini-conference program and write it up tomorrow.
- nazgulnarsil 17y agoyeah, four accordion folds from the looks of it.
- awa 17y agoBe careful... from the buy link "Zoomable street map + Greater London map. Patented folding. Comes with an information leaflet, containing an index for streets, stations and places of interest, useful numbers, official tube map. Street map shows all underground lines. 100+ museums, galleries, sights." Patented folding FTW!!
- awkward 17y agoI'm pretty stunned by how bad the movie player on this site is. In terms of how handles buffering and showing the timeline to the user it's almost the inverse of what you would want to do.