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This is so great. Is your backend set up to do other vector paths besides just map tiles?

Yup. The settings are tuned for maps right now, but we can take any raster image with up to four b&w layers and send it through the same process.

Whats the max size?

What if I want a rooms floor done like this?

What an awesome idea to tile your floor with the city map in wood veneers. I wonder how durable it would be.

Then I would personally salute you. Still trying to convince the fiancee to do our living room as a woodcut floor :)

I'd like to try some Escher patterns.

I have been drawing some based on some of his drawings in AutoCad - to then color in illustrator.

I drew this the other day - and it would be great to do a pattern like this in wood for an entryway:

http://i.imgur.com/CMa4J.png

Would it not be possible to render on the client side with html5 canvas to decrease the load on the server?

Yeah, this would be great to have, especially for live previewing of different material combinations. Would require a major rev of the interface/rendering though, so didn't make the cut for launch.

Maybe in a future version then? It seemed like it could be quite easy to sort out with open street maps which I think is already possible to do through canvas.

Perhaps another idea though would be to make your own stylised maps with Mapbox http://mapbox.com/ with OSM so you could print out more stylised maps ;)

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