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POSTER - WALLCHART - DETAILED RELIEF MAP OF CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA

 

Map:

Here is a detailed relief map (does not include rivers) of California and Nevada. It has high resolution (Right click on the image and select "Open image in new tab" to see the full resolution) and can be printed as a wallchart. Hope you enjoy it !


How this map was made:

  1. I downloaded blank relief maps (9 times zoom in from the maximum zoom out, corresponding to a scale of 20 KM) from Maps-For-Free (Thanks to Hans Braxmeier, Germany) piecewise (around 24 pieces) and then joined them together in powerpoint (with slide dimension of 142 cm x 142 cm).
  2. Then I started marking mountains, passes, valleys, lakes, bays, islands, points and plateaus using text box and Format (ribbon) -> Text effects -> transforms -> Arch, to make necessary curvature of labels. White and Black fonts are used for more contrast depending on the surrounding.
  3. I used following sources for locating places i) USGS map locator (majority of places are located using this source) ii) Microsoft Encarta 2009 world atlas iii) Atlas of California, Michael W. Donley et al. (Pacific Book Center, 1979) physical features (page number 161) iv) Map, United states - The physical Landscape, Gilbert M. Grosvenor, (Nation Geographic Society - cartographic division, 1996).
  4. Inset US outline map for map locator is obtained from Wikipedia (File:Usa edcp location map.svg)
  5. Finally copied all the labels and images together on to MS Paint and exported as .jpg file (file size 7.68 MB)
  6. This work took me a total of 40 hours over a period of 2 weeks (12 to 28 December 2020).
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