Hello all

[jbgibson]

Welcome! Of course the USGS would help you make really, really good maps :-). We might be a better entry point though. Rummage through the tutorials, and the finished maps. Many of the Acknowleged Great Ones have links in their signatures pointing to the applicable tutorials to do their style.

Everybody's got something to teach as well as something to learn -- as an actual USER of nautical charts, please tell us some useful stuff about them.... why feature X is so gosh-awful critical, when they stopped putting thingey Y on them, C&C on posted ones that offer how to be more realistic. That sort of stuff. We await your instruction ...

As a level 7 Dad, my map advice w/r/t the children is make maps with them from the start, even if the medium is pudding on a tray :-)... ESPECIALLY if the medium is pudding on a tray.

(are the levels based on quantity of offspring, or years' experience? I might be a level 24... )

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(are the levels based on quantity of offspring, or years' experience? I might be a level 24... )

I so hope that level 24 is from years of experience and not number of offspring *lol* ...

welcome to the guild mckee