Mapvelopes is a 'map envelope' generator, inspired by the 'Google Envelopes' concept by Rahul Mahtani & Yofred Moik, showcased on the Yanko Design blog. Mapvelopes lets you create your own real-life versions of these envelopes, for any from and to address you wish.
To use it, simply enter the source and destination addresses below, and select the type of envelope you want to use. A PDF will be generated and returned to you, suitable for printing directly onto the envelope!
If there's a land route between your source and destination addresses, the route will be printed on the returned map envelope. If there's no route, or we don't have enough routing quota left for the day, an envelope with the start and end markers but no route will be returned.
Don't have a printer capable of doing borderless printing on an envelope? Simply select 'DIY C6' to produce a do-it-yourself template for a C6 sized map envelope, which you can print onto a regular A4 size sheet of paper. US size template coming soon!
Mapvelopes is built on Google App Engine, and uses the Google Static Maps and Geocoding APIs.
For details on how Mapvelopes works, see this blog post on generating PDFs in App Engine.