I, mapper
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While walking yesterday morning, I thought about how nice it would be to have a neighborhood map with me so I could pick streets to go down and so on. I basically thought up the whole thing at that point, and later in the day I implemented it.
I opened a popular search engine and called up a map of the vicinity. I tried different magnifications. Too big, and the street names would be too small when I try to use them. I found a size I liked. Then I made a screen shot and took it into Photoshop, where I reduced it a little bit -- as much as I was comfortable with. I copied it to the clipboard.
Then I made a new document the size of my iPod screen -- 320 wide by 240 high -- and pasted the clipboard to it, slid the picture this way and that until it was framed just right, flattened the layers, and saved the file.
( little maps behind the cut )
While walking yesterday morning, I thought about how nice it would be to have a neighborhood map with me so I could pick streets to go down and so on. I basically thought up the whole thing at that point, and later in the day I implemented it.
I opened a popular search engine and called up a map of the vicinity. I tried different magnifications. Too big, and the street names would be too small when I try to use them. I found a size I liked. Then I made a screen shot and took it into Photoshop, where I reduced it a little bit -- as much as I was comfortable with. I copied it to the clipboard.
Then I made a new document the size of my iPod screen -- 320 wide by 240 high -- and pasted the clipboard to it, slid the picture this way and that until it was framed just right, flattened the layers, and saved the file.
( little maps behind the cut )