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

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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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Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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So just reinventing rally navigation but worse?

https://www.dirtrider.com/rally-navigation/

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CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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Nah, it’s just one long fixed map in this case. That’s also an interesting system though.

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verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works
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This is the content that I have to pursue. Cheers

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beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
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Hmm my thermal printer images disappeared after a while. Much like the receipt in the sun…

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HaleHirsute@infosec.pub
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I hope the plan is traveling in a relatively straight line.

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PixeIOrange@lemmy.world
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Just distort the map so it fits

(/s)

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ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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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).

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CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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Well, in this case it was a curvy but predictable line, namely a river.

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EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world
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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.

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Birbatron@slrpnk.net
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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

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cmbabul@lemmy.world
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Jesus I’ve worked with point of sale printers for a long time and this person deserves a high paying position at Epson

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ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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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.

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