I'm looking for a good, but free map making program. Can any one provide suggestions? What are the pluses and minues to the various products?
It might help if you say what kinds of maps you want to make. Dungeons? Wilderness? Towns? Squares or hexes? Symbolic or Pictorial? Orthographic or Isometric? There are lots of different tools but they do different things.
BoldItalic wrote:
You could try Hexographer - there's a free version and a pay-and-get-more-features version
Thanks for the suggestion. Don't have time to try it out now, but this will be a good start for me. However hexagons aren't important; just a nice side benefit. If the trade off's in Hexographer are too much, what program would you suggest that doesn't have hexagon mapping?
Thanks again!
Created a map using Hexographer. It gave me pretty much what I was looking for, but something a little more user friendly would be great. 
So Piloti,
If what you're after is just basic mapmaking, then I personally recommend AutoRealm. It works as simple as Paint, but has the features you will want for basic mapmaking. One of my favored features is the fractal lines, they are good for coastlines (jagged without the wiggling lol).
Kalderan wrote:
Piloti wrote: