He explains his process in a blog post here :
https://aaronkoelker.com/wakulla-receipt-map/
Also shown in video here :
https://nitter.poast.org/AaronKoelker/status/1812987942987513863
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2024
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I hope the plan is traveling in a relatively straight line.
Just distort the map so it fits
(/s)
Why "/s"? He literally did that. If you're using it to sail across the river, it does not matter what its overall shape is - you can't get lost anyway but it will help to know about amenities ashore.
Surprisingly many printers with manual feed options support meter-long sizes or more so it's feasible to print it cheaply in color too (using receipt paper for the rarer dot-matrix printers).