Thanks for the Moderation fix and reply!

Quote Originally Posted by Hai-Etlik View Post
The "pixels" are the abstract units used internally by Inkscape and the SVG graphics format. Formally, they are "user units" but the SVG standard makes "pixel" an option and that's what Inkscape calls them. By default in Inkscape, they map to real units at 90 to the inch.
Thanks, that part was rather confusing. I had it about half figured out from the manual but a confirmation of pixels simply being an arbitrary unit in vector graphics programs set me solidly in the right place regarding that.

[...]So if you wanted to have 100 miles map into say 7.5 inches to fit on a US Letter sized sheet of paper with a 0.5 inch margin, it would be 7.5 in : 100 miles = 1:844,800. Rounding up gives a nice even 1:1,000,000, and a 7.5 in map covers an extent of 118.371212 miles.
Something like this is what I was asking, but a bit more along the lines of aesthetics. Is there a "proper" size for this kind of thing? For instance, how many inches could I go out to if I never wanted to print it? Would it really matter or does the program eventually fall apart? Stuff like that.

If you haven't already, I'd strongly recommend you run through the included tutorials under the help menu.
Yep, been running through those for a couple days whenever I get the free time, though they seem to apply more to contemporary drawing than they do necessarily to fantasy cartography, hence why I (tried to :p) ask about vector/inkscape specific tutorials or things of that nature. So far all I've found under this website's tutorial section for inkscape is something to do with contouring rivers, which will extremely nice, is a tad niche having really only to do with rivers.

Given another few dozen hours I absorbed a lot more material than I thought I could and this "panic post" is a bit out of context now, admittedly. Still, anything to do with general vector graphics cartography of a relatively local atlas page type drawing (as I said, only about a 100 mile radius rather than something like a "world map") would be amazing.