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My Name is Andrew Franke, I am the creative director of a new gaming and publishing company called Ravensworth. I had hear this was the best place to learn about mapmaking. Please excuse any foolish questions I ask. I will try to educate myself by reading the posts already here.
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Welcome Andy! (that's easier to type out!)
Explore the Mapping Software list in the Software Forum, check out the tutorials forum for lots of lessons on map-making, post maps early on, no matter "how bad you think they are" and let us do C&C and get you going in the right direction.
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Thank you for the welcome. I am going to take a look around at the mapping software and try to get started. As well as take advantage of the knowledge of some great Cartographers.
It's funny because my Dad was a Cartographer in WWII. Part of a Topo company that made maps for D-day and more. He later became the director of Defense mapping School at Ft. Belvoir Virginia. They didn't have the software back then and I unfortunatley never learned to make maps. I did however learn from him all about scale and how to read all of the different kinds of maps. So when i Joined the marines, I didn't have any trouble with orienteering.
Miss my dad still but I think he would be proud of me trying to learn something he loved so much.
Ya always do your family proud when trying to learn about something that they liked. My grampa was a WWII vet and he gave me a Japanese bayonet and officer's sword...pretty cool stuff. He was a coal miner and when my gramma moved in with my mom she brought a bunch of his old coal mining stuff so I've been reading his old books (lots of maps) and company newsletters. I think he would be happy knowing that I was interested enough to learn more about what he did, as I'm sure your pops would be. Cheers, mate and glad to have ya here.
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