Welcome to the forums MGCJerry! We look forward to your contributions and posts and hope that you become an active long term member.

Regarding the large map you have and want scanned, hunt down Gamerprinter on these boards. He has a printing/publishing business and large format scanners. He may be able to save you are great deal of time and energy and scan that for you. With it being newsprint though it may be too delicate, but I'm not familiar with the new scanners out there so talk to him.