Quote Originally Posted by Gidde View Post
For the coastline, draw a line across where you want your new map to end (make sure it *crosses* the old coastline on both ends). here's where my memory gets fuzzy, you want either the break tool, the intersect tool or both. Then delete the extra bits of the coastline and the line you drew. Once you have a clean new coastline, select both pieces and multipoly them together.
Thanks! I tried something like this. Now I have my map in a "cut out form". Two issues remains,
a) the new land masses which i have cut out are on top of everything else.
b) is it possible to set a new size for the map?