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
Jesus I’ve worked with point of sale printers for a long time and this person deserves a high paying position at Epson
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.
I hope the plan is traveling in a relatively straight line.
Just distort the map so it fits
(/s)
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).
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.
Well, in this case it was a curvy but predictable line, namely a river.
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
This is the content that I have to pursue. Cheers
So just reinventing rally navigation but worse?
Nah, it’s just one long fixed map in this case. That’s also an interesting system though.
Hmm my thermal printer images disappeared after a while. Much like the receipt in the sun…
Looks like a race map
This was a good read, ty!
