I made a frame out of an old bulletin board for my Fisher E-15 oversized map with some plexiglass over the top so I can draw route plans for the family when I'm out and about on solo trips.

This got me thinking about some cool ways to access, store, display all my other maps. Does anyone have a map storage or display solution they'd like to show/share? My friends dad had something like a wine rack, a wooden grid with rolled map storage spots and labels. Nothing fancy but lots of utility . Any ideas are appreciated!

This is what I use. The map name is rolled so it is visible and on top, or I write it on the edge. Nothing fancy, but it works. So far the dog ignores it.

I keep my maps in a large flat storage box under the bed. They are folded in half and arranged east to west. Not necessarily by number.

A while back an outdoor equipment store went out of business here in Cedar Rapids and I bought out their stock of McKenzie maps at a very good price. I almost have a complete set plus many Fisher and a few Voyageur maps.

27 pages of home printed maps making a wall in my garage. Recently updated to a 13x19 inch printer and considering a re-print. Obviously my storage is a hard drive in my computer, custom maps available to me within a few minutes of work.

Adding or subtracting information sets as desired.

butthead

I found an old maps display rack being tossed out at a church... the kind that sits on a tripod and you flip one after another to the back until you find the one you're after. I took the portion off that clips the maps together and inserted my McKenzie maps - a collection of 25 or so. The original idea was to hang them on a wall, mostly because I hate having curled-up maps; lack of space means that they are currently rolled up anyway, but can be a lot more loosely rolled and they still stay together. These are my stay-at-home planning maps; others that go along on trips are folded to map case size and wait in a box.







I also made another clip out of a couple lengths of threshold/edging used to span linoleum/carpet seams and used it to hang sets of blueprints at work. Clam-shelled the edging together with a few wing nuts to pinch the papers.

Shweady, cool idea to bind them up like that. Strategic planning measures.

butthead: " 27 pages of home printed maps making a wall in my garage. Recently updated to a 13x19 inch printer and considering a re-print. Obviously my storage is a hard drive in my computer, custom maps available to me within a few minutes of work.

Adding or subtracting information sets as desired.


butthead"

Holy crap! That's pretty great. The level of detail and personalized data must have made that pretty rewarding to finish. My buddy did the hillbilly version of that garage map. His wife requested it be taken down and he complied.

The old Delorme Topo could print out a 3x3 block printed on A4 sheets. The whole map is 3 blocks of 9 with campsites, portages, EP's, trails, PMA boundaries, and burn areas added. Toyed with an Enterprise version to print custom large frame maps, between the program and print house costs I went a cheaper route.

butthead

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OgimaaBines: "...with some plexiglass over the top so I can draw route plans for the family when I'm out "

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