Need your input please.

[wood-n-things]

I have an order for a puzzle. They want it to be of a state map outline with the counties outlined & the name of the county legible on each appropriate piece. I'm having a difficult time coming up with this image for a tray style puzzle. I have found a printer in town who can enlarge it for me to the size I need and copy it to a vinyl overlay and attach it to my wood for me. However i cannot find a high resolution image of the image.

How would you puzzlers go about doing this project.

The wood is going to be BB 1/4" on top of 1/8" BB backer , tray style 9 x 15.

Couldn't I just have it printed onto heavy stock paper (20#) and clear coat it with deft finish like I do other puzzles?

This is a large order so I need to find the easiest, most productive way to do this project.

Thanks for your help.

[evilbadger]

Mike

Which state are you looking for? I would think the heavy paper and a clear coat would work fine we just need to find you a high resolution image.

[wood-n-things]

North Dakota. Thanks.

[Jim McDonald]

Mike:
If you just need the map with county names click this link

[evilbadger]

Mike you have mail.

[Rolf]

Mike I think you need to wait for the snow to melt before you can get a good picture of North Dakota.

[wood-n-things]

Thanks fellahs.

Jim I need something similar but they want the counties to be colored. I found 2 sites and have contacted them. They are both copy right protected. The first does not have a high resolution image available. I'm waiting on a response from the other.

Rolf you are probably more correct than you know......LOL

Tim.
got it thanks.

[Arcy]

Can you get a public domain map from the state? You could then trace it in a vector graphics program and blow it up smoothly.

--Rob

[Arcy]

Here's a public domain map (and several others with this search). With all those straight lines it should be really easy to convert to vector graphics. This may even be doable programmatically.

--Rob

[wood-n-things]

Thanks Rob. I have figured out a solution. I will bookmark that one for future reference for sure though.