Timeline for What software is available for map creation?
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| Feb 28, 2019 at 19:50 | comment | added | Christopher King | @Styphon It would probably be easiest to make your world a flat torus then. It will be hard to tell the difference if your players aren't geometers, but much easier to draw and use. | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 15:26 | comment | added | Styphon | @PyRulez No, it doesn't have to be. | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 5:46 | comment | added | Christopher King | Does it need to be spherical? | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 21:20 | answer | added | Elias Rowan Albatross | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 3, 2016 at 22:36 | answer | added | Hatoru Hansou | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jan 3, 2016 at 7:45 | answer | added | Rayne Thomas | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 11, 2015 at 21:37 | answer | added | Phantom77 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 20, 2014 at 15:16 | vote | accept | Styphon | ||
| Sep 17, 2014 at 20:31 | answer | added | CAgrippa | timeline score: 16 | |
| Sep 17, 2014 at 11:26 | answer | added | DonyorM | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 17, 2014 at 10:08 | comment | added | user31389 | Here's an island generator with elevation and moisture: www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/… . Its author once gave a good advice based on his experience: don't focus on realistic maps, focus on interesting maps. ( simblob.blogspot.com/2010/06/… ) | |
| Sep 17, 2014 at 9:56 | answer | added | Monty Wild♦ | timeline score: 6 | |
| S Sep 17, 2014 at 9:34 | history | suggested | absinthe |
map-creation --> cartography
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| Sep 17, 2014 at 8:12 | comment | added | smithkm | You're not after map making software so much as world design software. Something like a specialized GIS. Map making is what you would do with the world once you'd designed it. | |
| Sep 17, 2014 at 8:11 | comment | added | Tim B | Discussion on whether questions like this one are on topic (it would be off topic on stack overflow) meta.worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/23/… | |
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| Sep 17, 2014 at 7:31 | history | asked | Styphon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |