You can see how much work you put into this. It turned out great!
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Fantastic job!
Your post brought back a flood family memories - my dad used to take the family there every summer for vacation back in the 60s. He taught me and my brother to fly-fish there. I still remember waiting in the mists at dawn in anticipation of the siren that announced the beginning of fishing for the day. It’s a beautiful place that will always be special to me.
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Beautiful work!
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I have wanted to do this as well. How, exactly, did you trace the lines? Like, with paper and pencil? Digitally with a mouse? Digitally with a “pen” device? On an iPad? Super curious. I don’t think I could do it with a mouse. Maybe with a pen/stylus type input.
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I pasted the image of the map into Inkscape. I created a layer and named it “map” and moved the map image to it. Once I determined the size I wanted it, I switched back to main layer to draw, and zoomed in on the image and started drawing.
Later I added the Google Map for the road information (it was more up to date).
This method took me several days, but in the end I knew I had exactly what I wanted.
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This is stunning
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I have a brother who would love this. He’s mad about trout fishing and goes to Bennett all the time. Nice work. Some day I need to try this out. I had done some work in the geo database programs but my brain exploded at the learning curve. That was a while ago, so maybe I can figure it out this time.
Thanks for posting.
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A good place to get 3D maps is Terrain.party there is the whole world and you can pick from anywhere. This is also great (and has underwater levels, I think) but is only a short time “trial” period.
If you could make it 3D and make it into a few slices with 3D printer software (or Gimp) you could have a real 3D design slopes and all.
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I love your park boundaries; what if you scored (heavy) a double line just inside the edges of the acrylic? That would be a subtle but not in-your-face detail.
I’d be so proud if someone did this for me (hint hint, Bellingham WA). (Not that I’m begging or anything…)
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I wanted a way to hang this map on the wall, so I searched for hangers and found what I was looking for on the forum!
I was able to integrate these into the back of the map. I also added some tabs so it could be hung with string/wire as an option also.
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Wow! This looks like a huge undertaking! It turned out amazing!
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A very personal gift, they’ll love it! Maps are rather daunting, for sure.
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Clever & useful addition to the original hanger design. Worth a post with the file since it was derived from a free file post here in the first place.
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True. But, I will make a more generic one to post back. This was positioned specifically to where the spaces were on the back of the map.
Looks good. The second one (& a mirrored version) are perfect. One of those simple mods that’s only obvious when someone else is clever enough to think of it 
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Very cool. Turned out Great!
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Here is the generalized updated design!
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That was good of you to do - especially with the holiday and other things that could keep you busy.
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Very nice. You could color the engrave on the acrylic to make it stand out. What of Missouri is this?
