Not a sport, and that is the point

There is a verb pair in our system for something that is not a sport at all. It is deliberate, and commercially it may turn out to be the important one.

A road trip has everything a route print wants and none of the things that usually come with one. It covers real distance. It goes somewhere specific. It has a beginning and an end that both mean something. And nobody involved was training for anything.

Why driving suits the map treatment

Most of our prints work best clean — the bare line, nothing behind it. A road trip is the clearest exception.

The shape of a drive is rarely distinctive on its own. Roads go where roads go, and a thousand-kilometre route across a country is a set of long curves that could be almost anywhere. What makes it yours is *where*, and where needs a map behind it: the coastline you followed, the town names you stopped in, the mountain range the road had to get around.

This is the one product family where we would talk somebody out of the clean line.

The gifting case

Road trip prints get bought for other people more than anything except walks. The route is usually shared — two or four people did it together — and it commemorates something nobody thought to commemorate at the time.

You need the file, which for a drive usually means somebody had a phone recording or a car with a trip log. It is worth asking. A drive nobody recorded is the one thing we genuinely cannot help with.

A note on what we can show

The map layer behind the line comes from OpenStreetMap data, and when it appears on a printed product the attribution appears with it — that is a licence condition, not a design choice. It sits bottom right in the context colour, small enough to read and quiet enough to ignore.