I might come back to that leaky pipe idea when I've fleshed out the rest of the set, Julian.

I hadn't really thought of this as a steampunk style as such. We'll see...

Thanks for all your comments, everyone. Your thoughts trigger my thoughts, as always.

While I was thinking about all of that, however, I did some rusty old pipes for the set.

So when we attach a palette to a map we should have the MERGE layer active?

Hi Everyone! :D

In this week's live mapping session Ralf will be taking a look at an old Annual issue, inspired by the cartography of Erwin Raisz.

Come along and join in the live chat here on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zZGWKT2pN4

Or watch it here on the forum (ps. there's no live chat right here)

There are a lot of nodes on the end of your crosshairs, and if your coastline is more intricate than the one Ralf was using as an example in that video it will behave as you describe until it is pasted.

Perhaps an easier thing to do, rather than trying to move all those nodes around until you can get the cursor to the corner, is to type the paste origin in on your keyboard and hit return. That's 0,0 (zero comma zero).

Then right click to clear the crosshairs before you accidentally paste it a second time.