I'm glad to see that these are appreciated. As much as I'd like to use software with my maps, I never learned how to use any of the available programs. I have always hand-drawn my maps and I figure that even though I'll find software handy for editing and labeling, I don't see myself creating maps from scratch with a computer; I enjoy the artistic process of drawing by hand too much

This does bring up a good question I have: If I draw the maps by hand, which program would be best for editing, coloring and especially labeling scanned-in artwork? Photoshop? Corel? Something else? I've fiddled around with GIMP and Inkscape, but they seem a bit "clunky", probably partly because I'm just not familiar with them and also because I'm spoiled with the user-frendliness of AutoCAD (with which I'm well-practiced).

I'm going to be sketching out a few more settlements and I'll post them here when they're done.