It was relieving and generally awesome to get the "go ahead", but an overwhelming sense of dread washed over me as I realized how much work lay ahead. (This sensation is described in my Making of the Nashville Map blog post where I describe the mental turmoil that accompanies intense drawing projects!) I also had to stay on top of my other freelance jobs, shipping print/puzzle orders, and it was the beginning of Party Season! (I am serious about Party Season.) So I knew I'd need to plot out a schedule for the project and stick to it militantly in order to hit deadline. As this was my first vector map at this scale and level of detail, the only basis for how long each section might take me was the example I made. I split the map into different modules and made my best guess at the hours I'd need to spend on each.