My friend and colleague New Folder is organizing the State of the Map conference this year. He asked me to design a banner for the official site. The conference is, apart from the usual OSM gathering, also focusing on businesses/governments and how they can use OSM data in their line of work. So I decided to create a banner which reflects the transistion OSM has been through. It started with a single idea and a few people collecting GPS tracks. Slowly from these tracks roads could be destinguished. Different types of roads where classified and more and more data was included and suddenly you got a map which at some points was more detailed than a ‘commercial’ map.
First draft SoftM'09 banner