👇 Drop your own map-overlay horror story or hack below.
You’ve been there.
The old way: “Let me just trace this fuzzy JPEG…” The new way: “Here’s my design overlaid on the actual planet.”
Screenshot Google Maps → Paste into AutoCAD → Scale manually → Spend 20 minutes aligning it → Realize it’s still rotated wrong.
Have you tried the _ADDSELECTED trick to pull map linework? Or do you still print Google Maps and scan it in? (Yes, I’ve seen this in the wild.)