Ethereal Cartography by shady grey
June 6th, 2010 11:50 AMI based the design partly on the London Tube map, using the circles on all the stops as opposed to just the ones that intersect, as I felt this would make the image easier to read. It's funny, because at first I thought I wouldn't be able to think of enough food items for each stop that I made, but by the end of making the map, there were tons more food I felt should have been on the map.
All the stops are named after food I like, and while I was working on the map, I grew quite hungry.
food transit map.pdf
Click to view the entire map. Forgive any misspellings.
food transit map 2.jpg
It's the jpg version! Yays!
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It's a scanned image, and my scanner scanned it into a PDF.
The other option, which was to take a digital photograph of it, would have rendered the drawing less legible.
I suppose I could have converted the PDF into a jpeg file, but that would have been an extra step I felt unnecessary. Perhaps you disagree?
It would probably be better if your scanner just spit out a png or whatever type of image it embed into that pdf. It seems bizarre that the scanner would do that.
Apart from loading slightly slower, using the pdf also means that instead of having the image show up next to the link to your proof on the Praxis page, you just have an image of ".pdf". Its shortchanging you some advertising.
Fair enough. I've taken the pdf file and saved it as a jpg, so now there's that as well. Thanks for bringing it up, and I'll keep it in mind for any future tasks.
So here's what baffles me. Why embed the image in a pdf? Why not just give us the original image?