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[kevinpaulscarrott]

Successful launch of the 'Stavanger Guide Maps Norway' portal...

...a warm thank you to all the CartoTalk guys and dolls who have given moral and practical support for many years.

I’ll keep this short & sweet and let the various languages speak.
Results of the past five to six months at the grindstone can be viewed here:



Happy summer or winter wherever you are on the planet!

Best wishes,
Kevin-Paul Scarrott
Stavanger Guide Maps Norway
www.stavanger-guide.no

...latest stats from launch day (unique visits):
- 75 countries
- 523 cities
- 5 147 visitors

...preliminary search results in a specific language (Arabic, Hindi, Russian, Japanese, Greek, Chinese):

- ستافنجر خريطة المدينة

- स्टवान्गर सिटी मानचित्र

- Ставангер Карта города

- スタヴァンゲル市内地図

- Στάβανγκερ Χάρτης Πόλης

- 斯塔万格市地图

I'll post some more results in 30 days.

[MapMedia]

Congratulations Kevin-Paul! Very impressive set of maps and a clean, presentable website.
Have you considered publishing these maps in a sort of travel guide for the Kindle?

Chris

[ELeFevre]

Nice work! Everything looks fantastic!

[kevinpaulscarrott]

Have you considered publishing these maps in a sort of travel guide for the Kindle?

Chris

Hello Chris and thank you very much for your feedback.

…travel guide for mobile devices…good idea for the people that will be following-up on this project.
I’m hanging-up my cartography cap later this year and going back on the road.

Best wishes,
Kevin-Paul

[kevinpaulscarrott]

Nice work! Everything looks fantastic!

Hello Boulder, Colorado and thanks for your warm encouraging comment!

Best wishes,
Kevin-Paul

[Gretchen Peterson]

I just tweeted about your new Stavanger maps. Very nice!

[kevinpaulscarrott]

I just tweeted about your new Stavanger maps. Very nice!

...very encouraging news Gretchen, thank you very much for taking your time to spread a little gossip through the ’grapevine’

…just a quick reminder that the ‘Stavanger palette’ is still available to all at CartoTalk who may wish to utilize the CMYK in map projects: palette

Good luck and keep up the good work!

Best wishes,
Kevin-Paul

[kevinpaulscarrott]

...I have room for eight more languages...would anybody like to make any suggestions?

Serious feedback appreciated…but anything funny is also very welcome!
...a laugh a day keeps the doom & gloom away.

…working on Hungarian and Persian at this moment in time.

[DaveB]

Well, you could try "pirate talk".

Maybe Italian?
Do you have any statistics on where visitors come from? Might give you an idea of which languages would be most useful.

[kevinpaulscarrott]

Well, you could try "pirate talk".

Maybe Italian?
Do you have any statistics on where visitors come from? Might give you an idea of which languages would be most useful.

...brilliant, I love it!

Pirate Speak:

Aye, har is the city map o' sta'anger, be you lost? Gar, Where can I find a bottle o'rum?

Original:

Here is the city map of stavanger, are you lost?

from:
Pirate Speak Translator

[MapMedia]

I’m hanging-up my cartography cap later this year and going back on the road.

What does "on the road" entail?

[kevinpaulscarrott]

I’m hanging-up my cartography cap later this year and going back on the road.

What does "on the road" entail?

...before I started with this lark I was travelling the globe as a marine engineer.
Back 'on the road’ indicates that I’m having a slight problem settling.
The ‘Pirate talk’ is certainly going to come in handy!

[MapMedia]

I’m hanging-up my cartography cap later this year and going back on the road.

What does "on the road" entail?

...before I started with this lark I was travelling the globe as a marine engineer.
Back 'on the road’ indicates that I’m having a slight problem settling.
The ‘Pirate talk’ is certainly going to come in handy!

Your a Jack of many trades Kevin! Am sure your website will get noticed by a lot of people and the press.

[kevinpaulscarrott]

…thank you very much Gretchen for your tweet and for the news flash on your web site.
I’ve received emails from a couple of students that have read your blog and are interested in using the Stavanger palette for some of their projects!

…what a breath of fresh air it is when people show a desire to spend time developing their skills and go for authenticity.

Authentic creativity vs. karaoke culture
…we live in a karaoke world according to:
(Malcolm McLaren tells stories from his remarkable life, from failing school to managing the Sex Pistols, to suggest that we're living in a karaoke culture, with false promises of instant success) watch here

Your generosity has certainly humbled and at the same time impressed me, thank you very much.

Warm regards from the land of the midnight sun!

[kevinpaulscarrott]

I promised to post some more preliminary results for you after 30 days.
Here is just a quick Google Analytics view of number of visits and cities:



It’s always humbling to know that ones work is appreciate by travellers all over the globe.

I’m always here if anyone is interested in any other kind of background information for running this type of service.

Take care!

Best wishes,
Kevin-Paul Scarrott
Stavanger Guide Maps Norway