While rummaging around trying to find a program that would let me draw maps painlessly (Maps of imaginary places, btw. On a Mac, wot) I came across Terragen, which is a scenery generation program, currently around about version 0.8. While its creators are creating it, they're letting all and sundry use it, free. (There's a version for registration as well, with extra features). It is, for these days, a little program, 2.4 MB for the Mac, doesn't require a lot of user-sophistication, at least to get started - you can go in and poke buttons and it will create a terrain from scratch, randomly modify details of water color and transparency, atmosphere color and transparency. It creates basic landscapes, without man-made features. There are promises of vegetation and other goodies in time, and there seems to be an active user community. I can't yet persuade it to recognize surface maps, or I'd have ice and snow in this, my first doodle:


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