[agracier]

This helps a lot . . . . looks like I need a bigger computer! I am building the Azores so I will try 55. I got a 'out of resources' message at 50.

With islands, it can sometimes be a solution to make the map in several parts and then to recombine the parts together afterwards. This because of the large distances between the islands, which makes for often huge sized DEMs but with little land mass in them. I did that with the Aleutians map and while you need to be careful with recombining the parts, it helps with the DEM ...

You only need 2 basic images from the DEM anyway, a gray and a color bmp ... you should be able to pull off making both pixel perfect from each 2 smaller color/gray bmp's ...

And if you really want to go basic, you only need the gray bmp image to make a map ... the color bmps are not really necessary if you make your ed_m01 maps from other more colorful and better looking sources, say a googles map overlay site such as this one:

http://www.maps-for-free.com/