Need a bit of help with mapping.
Henrie61
Traveler
Have a map of a continent.
Now I want to map a part of the continent in a more detailed map.
But I want the the north-west border of the large map to be the north border in the detail map.
Can't figure a way to do this without redrawing everything.
Any adcive is appriciated.
Now I want to map a part of the continent in a more detailed map.
But I want the the north-west border of the large map to be the north border in the detail map.
Can't figure a way to do this without redrawing everything.
Any adcive is appriciated.
Comments
in another thread you descibe how you take a bitmap image of the larger map and add it as a guide in the more detailed map (great idea, btw!). Can't you simply rotate that bitmap guide to the needed orientation and draw the new map along the contours?
As a side note, why would you change the orientation of the map when going from general continent to detailed map? When I look at a map I'm somehow used to north always being up. I'd say this is especially valid when you look at a detail view of a larger map. (I'm currently thinking of something like an interactive atlas... Maybe there are other maps with different uses.)
Nils
The problem is that I want to map only a certain part of the map.
Cutting out a square would roughly leave me with a upper right an a lower left corner that I down want to include in the detailed map.
But think I found a workable solution, going to use "fog of war", kinda anyways.
See how that turns out.
ah, I think I understand, you are trying to map a country like Norway, which is also inconveniently shaped to go from top right to bottom left with lots of "unimportant" area in the other corners?
In that case I think the "fog of war" style might be a good solution. You could map out your important area with all detail, have some detail just outside the borders to give an impression of the relationship between the neighbours and gradually reduce detail the further you get away from your main area. I would in any case include all features that show in the continent's map also in the smaller map to help the reader orient himself. You will also have lots of space for a legend, compass rose, etc.
Nils