MyLaserMap

[Lakes] Studio

Turn a lake into a layered depth plaque

Click a lake on the map. Its survey depths become stacked water layers (lakes without a survey get estimated depths), with roads and nearby towns engraved on the land around it and the lake's name and stats on a panel in the corner.

Click a lake on the map
Engraving
A compass rose is added automatically.
A small wooden panel glued into a corner with the lake's name, region, position, depth, elevation, area and shoreline. The lake is framed as large as the free space allows.
Highway shields (US 6, MA 28…) on the engraved roads, where the map has their numbers.
Country and state borders as dashed lines, with each state's (or country's) name in spaced capitals on its land.
Small engraved trees across national and state parks and forests.
Rivers and canals engraved as fine lines.
Other lakes in the frame cut out of the land, showing the lightest water shade.
Name label
On the map, wherever you put it: drag it on the preview, or its corner to resize it. Streets stop short of its letters.
Up to four lines. Left empty, it's the place you searched for.
10 mm
The height of its capitals.
Lettering
Water layers
5 layers
Shades of water, cut at real surveyed depths.With 5 layers at 3 mm the stack is 18 mm tall.
Depths in
Layers cut at round metres (5, 10, 15 m…), with depths and the panel in metres. US lakes start in feet.
Each layer's depth engraved beside its cut edge (20', 40'…), as on a carved chart.
A thin engraved line halfway between each pair of cut depths, numbered like the edges: more detail without more sheets.
Plaque
mm
mm
Layers, engraving and laser settings open in the preview after you generate. Changing them then is free and updates the preview.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), © OpenMapTiles. Basemap: OpenFreeMap. Depth: survey data from NOAA NCEI, Canadian provinces and US state agencies.