I'm starting to announce my latest project in a few more places (I had been working with a few people in a few message boards debugging the alpha versions and making feature requests) and since I didn't see a Paizo forum dedicated to pre-3.0 D&D versions, I figured this was the best place to post.
Anyway, if you liked hex maps in the style of the Dragon magazine series "Voyage of the Princess Ark" or other "Known World"/"Mystara" products, I've created a Java program that helps you easily (I hope) create hex maps in the same style.
I think I'm now ready to call this version "Beta."
Here's the link: http://www.inkwellideas.com/?page_id=160
Some key points:
-It starts as an applet in a web page so many people won't have to install anything. (You may need to install/upgrade Java, however.)
-You can start with a map of random terrain or a blank map.
-You set the map's width and height in hexes and the size of the hexes.
-You can customize the random terrain generator to give a different mix of land.
-Then your map opens in a pop-up window.
-There you can select terrain buttons then click on the map to change a hex into that terrain. You can also drag over hexes to change all of those hexes.
-You can select generic line and text buttons to draw lines or add labels and there are also preset line a text buttons that have settings appropriate for coastlines, rivers, roads, country borders, etc.
-You can optionally turn on/off hex borders, hex numbering, terrain icons.
-Hex numbering is very customizable: font name/style/size/color; rows then columns vs. columns then rows; set the separator character; what number to use to start the rows and columns.
-If you add text and lines and note if each is a political feature, natural feature or infrastructure, you can turn each of these on and off as if they are layers. (The preset road/river/boundary line and text buttons are set up for this.)
-You can save it to a native format for later editing and export it as a regular PNG image so it can be edited in an image editor or printed.
-And probably a whole bunch more.
Please let me know what you think, if you encounter any issues, and what you'd like to see added.