07.12.2007, 15:05
This is my mosaic map, pasted together in Photoshop Elements
I'm only using it to trace coast and rivers at the moment but its already set up to go for road rail towns etc. I have sacrificed an old French 1:300000 road map, which I tore the pages out of.
In addition I'm using 1:400000 for Belgium and Holland and 1:250000 for Britain
These are a good scale for picking out visual navigation features.
I have a full set of maps including the missing strip on the right.
The road maps are overlaying reasonably well on the Google basemap. There are slight differences in the map projections but not great enough to cause problems. The Google map is working as an alignment grid to line up the larger scale road maps since it covers the whole area.
There will be some historical errors due to these being modern maps (1980's) but I'm not going to worry too much about that at the moment.
Maps are being scanned at 150dpi which seems good enough to retain detail.
They are then scaled in Photoshop to fit the MWmap_c scale of 1pixel = 50m
Aim this weekend is to finish the coastline and move onto principal rivers.
First river will be the Meuse, where it all started (due apologies to any Polish readers for that comment). Come to think of it I need to apologise to the Dutch and Belgians as well.
Oh Crap! now I've upset everybody.
![[Image: Mosaic.jpg]](http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff113/Asheshouse/Mosaic.jpg)
I'm only using it to trace coast and rivers at the moment but its already set up to go for road rail towns etc. I have sacrificed an old French 1:300000 road map, which I tore the pages out of.
In addition I'm using 1:400000 for Belgium and Holland and 1:250000 for Britain
These are a good scale for picking out visual navigation features.
I have a full set of maps including the missing strip on the right.
The road maps are overlaying reasonably well on the Google basemap. There are slight differences in the map projections but not great enough to cause problems. The Google map is working as an alignment grid to line up the larger scale road maps since it covers the whole area.
There will be some historical errors due to these being modern maps (1980's) but I'm not going to worry too much about that at the moment.
Maps are being scanned at 150dpi which seems good enough to retain detail.
They are then scaled in Photoshop to fit the MWmap_c scale of 1pixel = 50m
Aim this weekend is to finish the coastline and move onto principal rivers.
First river will be the Meuse, where it all started (due apologies to any Polish readers for that comment). Come to think of it I need to apologise to the Dutch and Belgians as well.
Oh Crap! now I've upset everybody.