Why this exists

I spent a winter training for a triathlon. When race day was finally behind me, I wanted something on the shelf that wasn't a medal — the actual place I'd raced. The bay I swam across, the coast road, the climb that wrecked my legs on the bike. Held in the hand, at a scale I could look down on.

There was a site that did roughly this. I picked my area, started nudging the scale and the height, went back a few evenings to get it right. Somewhere in the middle of that, it closed. No notice. The tab just stopped working one day, and the model I'd been shaping went with it.

So I started building my own, mostly to finish the model I'd wanted in the first place. It turned into this.

A promise about that

The core of Map2Mesh — draw an area, generate a print-ready model, export STL and 3MF — stays free for as long as this project is alive. I know how it feels to have the thing you were relying on vanish. I'm not going to do that to you.

If you'd like to tell me what you built, or what broke, I'm at gl.schleikel@gmail.com or t.me/z1rachl.