>>2561372No idea how it works in bongland, but I was able to get a basic map from my local city government. I used that and caltopo that had a lot of older and useful maps for the area (elevation, stream/ponds marked, etc). I walked the trail using my phone GPS to double check distances with the streams/ponds/elevation changes used as landmarks to map the actual trail route. Then when I got done marking all the trails on the outdated maps, I overlapped the outdated map with a newer survey map that was made recently to copy all the trails over.
I had absolutely no idea what I was doing going in to it, as it's the first and probably last time I made a map, but it turned out mostly accurate even though the final picture was just a red line on top of endless trees with a few of the bigger landmarks just circled and written in as text. I wish I could've made it a bit more stylistic, but I'm not an artist or a map maker so I just focused on making it as accurate as I could.
