Brandon Blackmoor wrote:

How difficult would it be for a user to create this "road" effect in Inkscape?

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/26/91783/EvilSun/Gloucester.gif

Not difficult, but somewhat time consuming. The coastline could be autotraced, but the roads would be best redrawn. The railway line would take a little longer (there may be a clever way to make it with markers), and the drop shadow under the sign would have to be faked with gradients, or the blur effect.

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Brandon Blackmoor schrieb:

How difficult would it be for a user to create this "road" effect in Inkscape?

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/26/91783/EvilSun/Gloucester.gif

The roads you can do like this: * create pathes where the roads should be. * Choose a big outline size (so big the road should be). * Choose black as color for the outline. * Group all Lines. * Duplicate them. * Choose white as color for the duplicate. * Choose a lite smaller outline size for the duplicate.

You should now have a road like in the attached example file.

Later when Inkscape support Filters, there is an easier way of doing this. (without the duplicate step)