Quote Originally Posted by davoush View Post
Thanks, I was starting to think that inkscape might be more suitable. So basically the contours have to be manually drawn in? The map I posted has really tight contour lines, I'm not sure how I'd go about doing that? Are there any tutorials on here for inkscape, haven't been able to find many!
Inkscape has a built in set of tutorials under the help menu.

There are ways to generate a set of contours from a Digital Elevation Model (DEM), but that goes beyond normal graphics software into the realm of specialized geographic software, both to build a DEM, and to produce contours from it.