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Aaron Koelker printed a six-foot long scrolling map on receipt printer (jlai.lu)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by inlandempire@jlai.lu to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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He explains his process in a blog post here :

https://aaronkoelker.com/wakulla-receipt-map/

Also shown in video here :

https://nitter.poast.org/AaronKoelker/status/1812987942987513863

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[–] PixeIOrange@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just distort the map so it fits

(/s)

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Why "/s"? He literally did that. If you're using it to sail across the river, it does not matter what its overall shape is - you can't get lost anyway but it will help to know about amenities ashore.

Surprisingly many printers with manual feed options support meter-long sizes or more so it's feasible to print it cheaply in color too (using receipt paper for the rarer dot-matrix printers).