Hi,

I had an idea overnight that we might look into. There have been different artist led movements in the last few years that take a certain shape or form and then customise it, like the cows in Zurich and the bears in Berlin:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CowParade

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Buddy_Bears

More recently there have been popular culture versions of these movemetns such as the customisation of plastic toys like the Munny dolls and even game consoles such as Gameboys.

Perhaps we can use a similar idea to entice people to use our system, have the maps and the way they are packaged customised by artists/designers and vended from machines, possibly in a custom made can (like a soft drink), or bag (like potato chips) so that a standard vending machine can be used.

This might be a way to make the system more personal and appealing, as our research has shown us that we need something other than the genre/time appeal for people to be involved.

We can discuss tonight.

John