Re: Open Source or Free Map Making Software
There are a variety of free OpenSource drawing tools. Unfortunately they all take a hand at using. Gimp being the most likely for just drawing.
However, you should head over to Cartographersguild.com. Its a very open community for drawing maps and such.
However, here is my recommendation for the easiest and best free drawing tools. Paper and Pencil. I like lightly shaded grid paper. So here is how I do it.
Go to
http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/plain/
Set the size of the grid to something you like for your purposes.
Set the color to alight color that you can still see but wont distract from your map.
Draw your map.
Then scan it in.
Once you have it scanned in you can get GIMP or other free drawing tools to clean it up, color it, etc...
I hope that helps.