Hello all, I'm quite new to Inkscape and graphics stuff in general, so please forgive me if I don't know all the proper terms (which may be why my searches were fruitless).

I have scanned in a map I drew in pencil by hand and am currently working on 'inking' over the image with the pen tool. Currently I am working on the roads within the image, and I had a thought. My roads are two lines running parallel to eachother up until the point they branch off or hit an intersection.

I have played around with how you can turn a pen stroke to a path. I realized that this takes a pen stroke (with a single set of vertices and edges/curves) and makes it into a path object with a line of vertices and edges/curves around each edge. So, 1 to two. Is there a way to then turn a path object back into pen strokes so that each set of vertices and edges would turn into a pen stroke?

I know that sounds dumb confusing, so here's a picture. I'm told it's valued at 1,000 words.

Thanks for the read,

~Squid808

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Basically, draw all the roads as single lines; group them all, copy reduce the line thickness and make the stroke white. You will probably have some cleaning up to do afterwards, but that is the principle. I have done it before for my own maps

And no, after performing Stroke to Path, you can't go back path to stroke.

Btw, welcome to InkscapeForum!

Thanks tomh, I'll give that a try!

brynn, good to know, and thanks!

I'll come back to show my progress once I've completed it, see if I can get some pointers for my next one =)