New to the group

Discovered the Cartographic Guild a short time ago. Decided it would be a good fit for me. A little about myself. I'm a retired cartographer with 40 years experience, mostly in commercial thematic mapping. After retirement , I started to dabble in art using Artrage and this grew into a couple of attempts to draw digital maps. Artrage is an great program but it is very time consuming for producing maps. Then I found Campaign Cartography. It looks a lot easier to use. My purpose will not to make fantasy maps but ones depicting the real world. Any tips I can pick up will be most welcome.

Hello and welcome whynot

You have set yourself an interesting challenge, since the readily available styles that come with the basic CC3 package are heavily biased towards fantasy mapping. However, among the annuals there are such things as a John Speed style, and probably quite a few other more traditional map styles besides.

If you wish you could create your own style. CC3 allows users to add their own artwork as symbols, and to create their own drawing tools for line styles and area fills, though I would thoroughly recommend reading the relevant sections of the Tome first

Its lovely to meet you here - but I have to confess the groups are a little bit of a backwater compared to the rest of the forum, so it might be as well to introduce yourself in the Member Introductions forum as well

Thanks for the suggestions. Right now I'm kind of overwhelmed by all this. I'm going to try to move slowly. Probably begin with some tutorials.