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
Aaron Koelker printed a six-foot long scrolling map on receipt printer
14 Comments
cmbabul@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y
Jesus I’ve worked with point of sale printers for a long time and this person deserves a high paying position at Epson
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 4 pts · 2y
My home Epson printer supports paper as long as 1117.6 mm (44.0 in) out of the box so it can print a shorter one in color. Maybe some models have firmware hacks to disable paper feed between pages, enabling continuous printing.
HaleHirsute@infosec.pub · 18 pts · 2y
I hope the plan is traveling in a relatively straight line.
PixeIOrange@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Just distort the map so it fits
(/s)
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 13 pts · 2y
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).
EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Or just rotate it to direction of travel if it's for a route. After a turn is shown it would switch to forward is up.
Birbatron@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2y
As an Egyptian, I think this would be a great map format for our country.
Though the delta would pose an issue, the nile also goes diagonal in the south, so it'd have to switch from north-up in the north to nortwest-up in the south which would probably be jarring
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 2y
Well, in this case it was a curvy but predictable line, namely a river.
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 2y
This is the content that I have to pursue. Cheers
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 2y
So just reinventing rally navigation but worse?
https://www.dirtrider.com/rally-navigation/
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 0 pts · 2y
Nah, it's just one long fixed map in this case. That's also an interesting system though.
beeng@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 2y
Hmm my thermal printer images disappeared after a while. Much like the receipt in the sun..
cashmaggot@piefed.social · 1 pts · 2y
This was a good read, ty!
blindbunny@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Looks like a race map