Hello everyone,

I'm Soet from the U.S., I first became a mapmaker on the nation building game nationstates.net about five years ago. My first map was an amusing little creation on MS Paint (Some of you might know what I'm talking about). Under no direction I experimented with other raster and vector programs, then began to develop my very own techniques. I never realized there were so many others when I happened to stumble on this site. After five years of practice I've been trying to find ways to incorporate climate, topography, proper continental shelving, etc. in my maps. It's great to see I'm not the only cartography junkie in the world, though still one among my friends .