Hi Everyone :)

Ralf is back to live mapping tomorrow (Thursday), with a look at the latest Annual issue: Forest Trail by Sue Daniel... Oh that's me! :)

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The add node tool will separate them, even if both are visible. It can only add a node to one entity at a time, so as soon as that is done they are no longer the same.

Crashing can happen if you already have thousands of nodes in your map. This is more common if you are using an FT export, where the level of detail is almost ridiculously high.

The land and the coastline are two separate entities on two separate sheets. They start off as identical copies when you first draw them, but if you accidentally edit one without the other being visible with the node editing tools it's quite possible to make a difference this way.

Comments on this forum will become more easy to edit once you have earned enough likes. It's one of the many ways we prevent spammers from making a relatively innocuous comment and then coming back to edit it later and fill it with whatever they want to advertise. It can be a bit inconvenient, but it works very well to protect the community as a whole.

I think you might have to draw that one by hand using lines on the GRID sheet and HEX/SQUARE GRID layer. Once drawn, group the lines using Group, under Groups in the Tools menu. Then it should behave exactly like an automatically drawn grid.

You can create a snap grid of any rectangular dimension with different scales x and y, so it might be useful to do one of those first to make drawing the visual grid a lot easier. Right click the GRID button and create a NEW grid.

Ok, so they're all just stones, and we are looking down on them, but how do they look?

I also adjusted the heather, since it was looking like colour patches rather than actual plants. The upshot of that is that they don't look like quite such a homogenous mass as is natural on a moorland, but I guess I prefer them this way to the way they were.