Thanks for the kind comments! I thought this thread had lost itself to the bottom of the forum. I'll try to move some of the names, but I was planning on putting a lot of information in it. I thought of curving text, but since, as you said, it is so hard, I didn't go ahead with it. If only there were some easier ways than with the standard photoshop text curve tool. Maybe Illustrator has some way to do this. Thanks for the great link, jbgibson, there seems to be a lot of info in this pdf.

I didn't have much time to work on this map recently, but I'll try to update it soon enough. With my new printer that might make it easier to plan ahead.

The map might be missing some islands. I'll see if I can add some while keeping the style.