What to do with 1000's of Maps

[Wattok]

At the National Orienteering Centre we are moving with the times of OCAD files and pre-marked maps and are clearing the decks of most of our map stocks. This means that we are getting rid of 1000's of blank out-of-date maps.

Can anyone think of anything to do with them other than just chucking them out?

Does anybody want any of them?

Get your thinking caps on, you've got a week before they go in the skip (recycling bin).

If anybody wants to get in contact with us regarding these maps please email us at: nationalocentre@scottish-orienteering.org

[Asian]

Wall paper your office and the whole of Glenmore lodge with them, the place needs decorating anyway!!!!!

[Mr. Furness]

hi wattock-

the droobers (and WMJS) have for a while been using blank maps to make jotting pads kindathingies(?!) to sell as well as cakes etc. for fundraising. a printer does them for us (mr halliday) not sure on cost but you can have them any size (A5 or smaller is prob best though), and either binded (expensive option but better looking) or just glued along one edge. could prob get with a cover design to look quite professional suppose.

james

[HOCOLITE]

Speak to Pauline Olivant re Schools O they used to put a pack together.

[Blanka]

Yep, map notelets/jotting pads is what I made from loads of old CUOC maps last year. You need to have access to a heavy duty guillotine (the students' union had one in my case), cut the maps and card to size and then join them at one edge by applying padding glue (available from any printing/stationery store, I would guess), preferably in two layers. When I did them I usually did about 5-10 notelets at the same time and then separated them afterwards.

[bolder]

Use them to decorate the bathroom walls.

[chepls]

or

you could give say 30 copies of each area to me to use for any EUOC training weekends next year?

Cheers,
O

[Nottinghamshire outlaw]

Those of us who tutor coaching courses give out lots for making games - jigsaws, map matching etc. Now that fewer clubs do litho print maps there will be a shortage - some of your tutors in Scotland might want some and a box or three could come to BOF via someone with a car at the Harvester or another event.

[harry]

can I have a few copies of each area too please?

[Seamus]

Old maps were ace for cover text books at school. I got a whole load after the WMOC when they in Scotland.

If the lesson was particularly bad, you could always plan a course around Inshriach.

[John Morris]

Seamus wrote:-

"If the lesson was particularly bad, you could always plan a course around Inshriach."

Why not run a course-planning competition? In association with CompassSport? That'd use a few, and perhaps discover a few budding planners.

However - and this is my main point - unless you're really rolling in money up there, why not SELL some?

Sell, separately or (perhaps better) in packs, at the 6-Days, at major events elsewhere, or over the internet (via BOF and/or 6-Days website)?

And you could advertise "familiarisation packs" in a flyer to be sent out to 6-Day entrants...

And did somebody mention laminated coasters?

Not that I'm particularly tight-fisted (for a past BOF Treasurer, that is...) but every little helps and we are RATHER SHORT OF MONEY...

[Mrs H.]

Yeah - I laminated them for place mats at last year's JK (map mats) they proved so popular that people didn't put their plates on them but to one side so they could look at them while eating

[andrew T]

how about,using them in your printer so any letters sent by the centre (or SOA) were printed on the back of a map.

[the duncan]

ayem dinnae throw them away pal, use them for training (oleg) and also for the note pad things, the OS sell them in shops too, make some money on the side dude!!

[gg]

please can i have some too?