Thanks for the kudos.
To answer your questions (they are actually linked)...
We wanted to go with the authentic military maps this time. The problem is that, to use scans of real, military maps, we can't get a consistent background color, which is required to make contour over color work. We also were not able to achieve color and contour maps both at the required resolution on the minium target machine (a lower-range PC with 256 MB of RAM), so we had to reduce the resolution of either the color or the contour map. We decided to go with the military map. I hope it is not too much of a problem.
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Thanks, again, for the input.