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We created the Hospitality art to help people and hosts share useful info with guests, like favorite places, house rules, WIFI, contact info etc... all that packaged in a beautiful poster.
I really like the concept, but in addition to the free png (which is nice!) what about offering a stack of handy portable map-sized ones?

I could imagine a stack (maybe fused at the top like a post-it note pad) to let sit out on a table so people can take one, etc...

Thanks for the suggestion, this is something we were already considering.
Cool! I'd definitely order something along those lines. I love handing out little guides to guests, and this would make it super easy.
+1, I would also use something like that for my rental property.
I like the idea, but it would be nice to see pricing info without first having to create one
This is a great idea. I've sent it to several people I know that rent out their homes.

Are you printing yourself or outsourcing it? If you're outsourcing it, to whom?

We are using a local company for now, but might switch to a service to handle high volume.
it looks really good! The printed map would be nice even as a gift.
This is a great idea! Clear target market, well implemented. I feel like investment in advertisement will be a certain ROI.
Awesome idea but is there any way to remove some of the sections like 'House Rules'? Maybe have custom sections? I don't rent my place out but love the concept.
I don't rent my place either but instead I wrote the name of the guest wifi under house rules. And in the big textarea I entered two line breaks so that I can paste a sticker with the current password on it.
Great idea!

Handling of favorite places is done really good.

I would choose the second or the fourth style as default. The first one is to "monochrome".

If I change the size to 18x24 the circle around the "You are here" gets stretched to a oval.

This is so cool, it deserves his own domain.

I immediately wanted to order one, just for my home, no airbnb.

But I'm unable to add new places. I've deleted most of the pre-selected places and tried entereing a few different ones in the field but nothing happens. If I click done I just see the one I didn't delete on the map and no new ones.

FF 57.0 (64-bit) on Fedora 26.

Could you try in Chrome? I didn't test the site with Fedora.
Fedora is a linux distro. FF = Firefox
Kinda sounds like they've hit api quota limits? Perhaps try later?
This is great. For adding favorite places, would it be possible to show the addresses in the autocomplete? There are more than one Safeway or Starbucks in my area, for example.
Good point, added to the list.
Keeps getting error now with address lookup. "Oops, something went wrong"
Probably api quota limits?
It fixed now. We had some issues when we reached the #2 spot on the HN homepage.
put in my address and got "oops something went wrong?"
We had some server issues earlier today. This is fixed.
FYI: I keep getting "Oops, something went wrong" with any address that I try in chrome and firefox.

Looks really cool though!

First, very cool! It'd be tempting to get something like this even if I'm not an AirBNB host.

I'm sure one could find loads of strange visual artifacts given this covers the whole world(?), but here's one:

Some of the map styles fail to render sections of the Chicago River and North Branch Channel. See 5500 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625 as an example.

Maybe it's an issue that affects waterways in general.

Can you try again? I tried this address and it worked fine for me.
Yep issue persists. Only the orange and blue style correctly renders the waterway fully. The others omit a portion of it. In that section I believe there is a park on either side so perhaps that's got something to do with it.

I'll share a screen shot later.

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Email web/png not working for me
Can you try again? We had to restart the servers to push a fix.
It would be nice to have an option to remove the House Rules / Contact section. I just want one for my home.
Yep. I’d like to get a series of these for something like “where Mom and Dad met”, “where you were born” etc. for my sons room.
Actually for the air BnB rental, I think it would be real sweet to think of some way you can make procedural inputs from suggestions from the current guests, and send the resulting design to them in a choice of mug or mouse mat or tea cloth or what have you. The dates of their stay and so on . . But be sure to advertise on the output, naturally. Anything you can do to multiply good word of mouth is (deductable) pennies well spent.
Particularly, I actually want to remove all sections and titles and just have the map.

Would it be possible to not show headings if there is no content in that section?

True that! As not only airbnbers wanna use this neat app...
What are you using to generate the default "favourite places" list? it picked some pretty good ones.
That's perfect for the office too! A nice looking poster highlighting all the nice 5-7 meeting spots is really cool.

I wish we could edit the "House rules" title for something more corporate.

Doesn't seem to work in Firefox 57 on Linux. I disabled uMatrix, but do have Privacy Badger & uBlock running.

Also, checkout says 'Get your hospitality poster.'

Looks awesome though!

Serious question: if you care about your privacy how can you stay in an Airbnb with little way of thoroughly checking whether the owner has put a camera in the bedroom, bathroom, etc?
A little faith in humanity and in your ability to judge character. If you’re absolutely paranoid about this sort of thing, how do you even use a public restroom? How do you know your own house doesn’t have cameras watching you? Even James Bond lets his guard down now and then.
Well I’m asking because there have been news stories about this exact practice. And those are only the ones that have been found.
Install Fing which is an iOS app that scans the network, and look for cameras, but it is not so useful anymore since Apple removed the possibility for apps to read mac-addresses.

There is a talk here from Defcon which gives other tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJgCDH1v9PY

Don't think this is related to the topic of this thread. This question belongs somewhere else.
Neat! Btw with my monitor in portrait half the example poster is cut off