Adam wrote,
It seems to me the best approach would be to set up a simple spreadsheet with columns such as:
Distance Angle X-coord Y-coord
and with proper attention to the formulae, you would quickly end up with a list of sets of coordinates which you would then plot. I don't see any aids in Inkscape to do this and attempting to draw the coords from the little numbers at the bottom of the GUI that run with the cursor position would be more hit than miss.
Yes. You could do this but it's just reinventing the wheel.
Inkscape would give a great map when complete - you could add features
It does, but needs a couple of areas addressed. Such as snapping to ends of plotted lines (apologies if this is present already :-)), such as getting up to speed on zooming in/out on a big map etc.
There is a fantastic range of land and land-use clip art at:
http://ian.umces.edu/index.html?http&&&ian.umces.edu/conceptuald...
and they are all vector format! You must have a look at that site.
That is a great site. Thank' s for drawing my attention to it.
Erik