Another Map

The cool thing about this one is that I made it. Rather, I used freely available software and data from the State of Hawaii, and then I tinkered with the settings.

What’s even more interesting is that I figured out how to customize the map by importing locations from my GPS. So this map shows the exact location of the swimming hole pictured earlier.

Map of Kauai with elevation shading, roads, rivers and a red box near the center.

I must admit that I cheated and used a photo editor to create the ocean. The map had a solid background, and I thought the island looked better with an outline “halo” and gradient ocean shading. The land portion, however, is exactly the output of the map utility.

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