Large to Small - Going from Regional to Local Maps
Monsen
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A very common questions from new users is how to make a new map from part of their existing one.
To address this, I've now published a new blog article titled Large to Small - Going from Regional to Local Maps. It even comes with a video to illustrate the steps (I am still waiting on Dogtag to make a proper video tutorial though, this is just a silent support video to a written tutorial).
Now, I know you experienced old gents and young ladies here don't need this, you're probably quite familiar with this already, this is written mostly for newer users. But this is a proper article which you can link anyone asking this question in the future to, and I would appreciate if people did so. And should you ever forget the link, remember that the links to all my articles here in the forum and the blog can easily be found in the Interesting, Important and Helpful topics sticky, just click the "Command of the Week" link inside there, and you'll end up on a post with links to everything.
To address this, I've now published a new blog article titled Large to Small - Going from Regional to Local Maps. It even comes with a video to illustrate the steps (I am still waiting on Dogtag to make a proper video tutorial though, this is just a silent support video to a written tutorial).
Now, I know you experienced old gents and young ladies here don't need this, you're probably quite familiar with this already, this is written mostly for newer users. But this is a proper article which you can link anyone asking this question in the future to, and I would appreciate if people did so. And should you ever forget the link, remember that the links to all my articles here in the forum and the blog can easily be found in the Interesting, Important and Helpful topics sticky, just click the "Command of the Week" link inside there, and you'll end up on a post with links to everything.
Comments
Thank you very much, Remy
Very nice. Even for us "old gents", this is a nice refresher. I often review techniques if I haven't used them in a while, just to be sure I'm doing everything correctly. Very helpful and I'm sure will be appreciated by many, many users.
I've started a new bookmark folder in my browser, called "Remy's Remedies" for links like this one. I've been linking to more of the blogs just lately - including back from the FB group page. They are a very useful resource for those of us (er… I guess that's me mainly) who find it difficult to remember everything each time, and who don't always know what we are talking about and end up kind of flannelling our way through the unexpected twists and turns (while trying to do as little harm as possible)
I have to say though that I've routinely found it far quicker and easier to go down the route advocated in the closing paragraphs, under the "Other Methods?" header. This may be due to the fact I started out needing to map variant real-world settings using - often combining information from - several different pre-mapped sources. Thus one of the very first things I learnt was how to import an image I could copy over using CC3.