You can pick some starting coordinates and then iteratively scoot the points around until you (hopefully) get a reasonable solution. I came up with this set of coordinates, which isn't too bad.

A  125.5  -13.0
B    5.8  622.6
C  170.2  250.3
D   67.6   28.0
E   54.9  392.3
F  128.8  137.6
G  126.6   63.5
H  137.6  100.2
I -115.1   83.3
J  219.8  483.8
K  117.0  352.0
L -176.7   28.1
M   86.2   63.7
N  189.9  182.1
O  207.5  242.4
P -124.3 -117.7
Q  116.8  109.2

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