Since I have been lurking on these forums for a few days I thought I’d step into the spotlight and say hi.
Hi!
I’m an Icelandic person living in Australia. I have been playing role-playing games for the last 15 years and making maps for fun even longer.
I’m a Geographer by trade and work for a planning consultation company. As a part of my job I do real world maps for reports and presentations. Mostly thematic maps (Data displayed on a map), but also do a lot of locational and explanatory maps. I mostly use GIS programs (MapInfo 9.5) and GIMP 2.6 for the finishing touches. I also use aerial photographs, satellite images and other such real world data for my maps Just added a few maps to give an example of my recent work (see attached).
The reason I’m in the forum is that I would like to pick up some skills in how to create fantasy maps from scratch on the computer and generally hone my skills.
See you around.