Asked to demo mapping in digital art class.

[RjBeals]

thanks rav. it will be fun, but I'm already nervous. I assume the class will be normal college age students, late teens early 20s. but could be a handful of older folks as well.

I'll have to demo the techniques I know. No GIS or anything technical. Basically starting with a google maps screen grab and tracing it. yikes!

[Hai-Etlik]

I'll have to demo the techniques I know. No GIS or anything technical. Basically starting with a google maps screen grab and tracing it. yikes!

Why not use a PDF or SVG export from Open Street Map? You can get it straight as a vector format and it's under an open license. Where tracing over a Google map may be OK in this case as an educational exercise, it wouldn't be if the map were going to be distributed.