Okay, since no one started throwing stones yet...


This is Goat Island:

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(Niagra)

So... I want to take it, and trace it (just the height of the land/depth of the water):

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So that I can see the heights/depths without all the... clutter.

Then I want to get rid of everything but that tracing, and try to... *redraw* (without tracing) and paint the water and land, and put forests where they once would have been, etc.

Then I want to put that in one of my fantasy worlds/maps/whatever and eventually build settlements there.

My *dilemma* is that I don't know if, starting with that tracing, what I want to do is allowed/legal/acceptable/appropriate/whatever.

Cause I don't know what the rules are with mapping

So... yea or nay?