I bought the Village flip map, but I wanted some more areas of my village, particularly residential. I figured that the villagers were basically poor, so I figured the shacks and marketplace in particular would be exactly what I needed.
I bought the PDF version because it seemed silly to buy physical tiles and then cut them up. I went ahead and printed out the tiles I needed, then cut out the specific pieces I wanted to use -- for example, I used the shacks themselves, but not the rest of the tiles they were on. I mounted the printouts to posterboard, and cut it to size. Now I have convenient placeable buildings and such to use as a second part of the village on the blank side of the flip map. For some of them, I cut out chunks of the crumbing building roof and mounted them on the reverse side of the building placeables, so I can show exterior at first and interior if the PCs go in.
Combined with the Sandpoint Townsfolk PDF paper minis (and the Village flip map), I have a flexible, very reasonably priced village to use as a home base for my campaign.
Side note: the PDF version includes a version showing each area complete, without tile breaks or the white arrows showing how the tiles connect. For the 8x10 placeables in particular, this is perfect, because you can print it on one unbroken sheet of paper or cardstock with no arrows. The one downside is that there is text on the edge of the tile identifying the purchaser, but since it's on the edge and not right in the middle of a multi-tile building like the arrows, this didn't really bother me.
