Matt's Tree Stands – A Real Life Map

[bkh1914]

Matt and his wife have a vacation and hunting cabin half a mile south of me (1 mile if you are driving) and Matt is an avid bow hunter.

Matt has been hunting deer on my land for about ten years now. During bow season he always hunts from tree stands (platforms in the tree or ladder stands strapped to the tree). He currently has seventeen stands – seven on his property and ten on mine. The most of the stands have names: the Matt Orchard Stand, the Joe Stand (where his older son prefers to hunt), the Big Elm Stand, etc.

A couple of weeks ago Matt hit me with a new name – he was thinking of having Jim (a friend) hunt the Tunnel Stand. Huh? What tunnel?

We really needed a map with 'official' names for all the stands. Matt loved the idea, especially since he'd get a decent map of my property.

This is the map of my property (top) and Matt's property (bottom).

Matt's Tree Stands 2 scaled.jpg

Matt loves the map and it was really useful during the opening weekend of gun deer season.

Done entirely in GIMP with a mouse.

Locations are based on the aerial photograph overlay available through the county's GIS map system. The contour lines are from the USGS Topo map and they were adjusted to better match the actual contours of the land. The colors are also from the USGS Topo map.

WIP thread: https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...ad.php?t=42746

Comments and critiques welcome.

[Gidde]

The end product is great, and if it was useful as well, that's one successful project.

[bkh1914]

Thanks Gidde.

The project went amazing well for my first attempt at a topographic map.

It's also the first map I've posted here at the Guild.