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Filling in around an Adjusted shoreline?

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It's been quite a while since I've done this. I have adjusted the shoreline of this lake and need to fill in the landclass/ground where it has changed from the default. Do I simply add new tiles to those areas or is it more involved?

Thanks!
 

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Same old routine; exclude what's there and put in new to match-up to what you want. Water excludes to a QMID 11 cell, so it might affect more than what you want or want to do.
 
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Same old routine; exclude what's there and put in new to match-up to what you want. Water excludes to a QMID 11 cell, so it might affect more than what you want or want to do.
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Hmmm, ok. . . .this is the area I'm working in, so I have to exclude that entire cell and then add landclass back in?
 

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The exclude for the lake will affect any other water in that grid cell. If there is no other water, not a problem. If there is other water, it would need to be added back as it applies to that grid cell.

You can load the default CVX file for that area in TMFviewer, turn on the QMID grid set to level 11 and check to see if there is any other water. Or you can just slew around the area noting the coordinates of each corner and see if you have any other water bodies that might be taken out.

Land class should not be affected, as there *should* be data underneath where the lake is and would be covered back up when the lake is added back.

If you do redraw the entire lake, you can make a copy of that SBX polygon, split it into a line or two and use that for quickie work on the shoreline.
 
That got it!, There were a few smaller lakes downstream but I just used the background map to trace those out. I still need to remove the old shoreline on those and add a new shoreline to replace, but that's no problem. Thanks for the help!!
 
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