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Believe it or not, I actually had an idea come to me in a dream. It's one of those cliched kinds of things that's never happened to me before, but did just this once.
This happened while Sydney and I were in Oregon, camping near Mt. Hood in the midst of doing a lot of planning for the next stages of our trip. That night I dreamt about setting out on a walk into the forest without a map, only parameters for a map tattooed on my arm.
Parameters for a map... how would you generate a map from parameters? One parameter being perhaps the wilderness area I'm heading out into. What if I could generate a map for that with just the sort of visual style and layers I'd like it to have? Then print it out on nice waterproof paper[1]...
mapgen --wilderness="Desolation Wilderness" --style="topo" --palette="muted" --all-trails
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