... best way to use Templot. There are over 9,000 imported background shapes, making screen response very slow when working over them. And being a CAD design, it has a "set-track" geometrical look. Most Templot users would use a map as a guide for track planning. Templot can capture historic maps from the internet and display them at the correct scale as a background guide. If you are modelling Eardisley to scale, a 25"/mile map can be captured from the NLS web site: 2_020018_530000000.png It is easy to shrink the map lengthwise if needed, and there is also a function to wrap a map onto a curve to fit a railway room. Here is the URL for the map: http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=52.13170&lon=-3.00704&layers=168&b =1 The function to import it is at background> maps menu item. Here is the BGS3 file below (it will be very slow to load with so many ...