Hi Roy,
Yes that does make sense, especially when considering deleting 70-odd kuids in TO.....
My particular problem involves chopping approximately 1.5-mile (east-west) slice out of the Murray River,
between Tocumwal & Barooga.
Craig Carr (Seeseeme) & I are re-creating the old Narrandera_Tocumwal Branch-line,
& including the WWII McIntyre Field as well.
McIntyre Field was the largest airfield (25 square miles) in the Southern Hemisphere during WWII.
It's a project in it's own right.
There was a 500-bed hospital built for the USAAF (as was McIntyre Field),
that's located east of Tocumwal.
It's several miles away from the township & air base.
We are putting in a tourist narrow-gauge loop-line, that will traverse McIntyre Field,
then out to the "RAAF #5" hospital, then return along The Murray to Tocumwal.
It's too far as a tourist attraction, so I'm bringing the hospital closer to the airbase & township,
by chopping out a section of the Murray River, then re-merging the terrain river roads etc.
I wanted to create the 70 basemaps so as to be able to accurately 'blend' what's left back together again.
And to be able to see the best places to actually make the incisions.
I wanted to do this in stages.
The 1st stage was to chop out the section, after laying down just the basic layout to the east of Tocumwal.
No textures/buildings etc.
Rather than re-create maps to be used in later stages one-at-a-time (or groups of say nine),
I thought it would be good to batch-produce all 70 basemaps, but lay down
only say five or six at a time,
then as I moved along, remove those first group & lay down the next group.
But still have 70 basemaps.
Once the section is removed, I could delete the unnecessary basemaps or archive them for possible future use.
Perhaps a stand-alone "McIntyre Field" route, only not the chopped-down version.
Roy I very much appreciate your input on this, & the above is an attempt to explain why I wanted to create
so many basemaps, rather than just a few, then once that area is completed, move onto the next area...............
