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https://quietjourney.com/community/YABB.cgi?num=1240074931 Message started by DentonDoc on Apr 18th, 2009 at 5:15pm |
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Title: Re: WCPP Maps Post by DentonDoc on Dec 12th, 2009 at 5:55pm
Thanks for the "vote of confidence" guys!
The maps that Jim and Darrel mention above are illustrated in my first few posts in this thread. Yes. After I looked at what maps of WCPP you buy from a commercial source, I decided to put a little "skin in the game" and make my own. I wasn't overly confident in some of the material until I looked at a set of marked-up commercial maps from a local outfitter. Most all of the information I had matched up nicely to what the outfitter provided. The additional advantages for me were (1) to only carry paper maps for the area actually planned to visit (we had a couple of commercial maps where we needed less than 10% of the material present), (2) condensed more by printing on both sides of the paper and (3) printing on waterproof paper (I have a personal printer that will handle stock up to 13 X 19 inch ... perfect size, folded, for my map case). (You need to Login or Register is a sample of where I was a few weeks back with my "new" approach. Everything you see (I mean EVERYTHING) is produced by an independent layer ... don't want the yellow vegetation ... you can turn it off ... you don't like the yellow color ... change it to something else from an extensive color palette. Legend of some of the less obvious elements on this map (again, you don't like the size/shape/color ... you can change these to suite your fancy) continuous dashed brown line: canoe route...portage when they cross land (non-continuous lines, not shown here, are winter/snowmobile trails) small brown squares: cabins (yes there are a few privately owned cabins within the park) black crosses (on water): these are referred to has "hazard to navigation"; translation ... reef/rock outcrop short red line: rapids red dots: waterfalls (I've since change these to red triangles to more easily differentiate between rapids and waterfalls) black number above a small black dot: point elevations Of course, you have the obvious ... gray contour lines, light blue lakes, darker blue steams and so on (in addition to which there are a variety of other data layers that don't appear on this map selection, e.g., roads). dd |
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