I did? Oh that's good

I think you might eventually be interested in a handy little piece of software made by NASA, called G-Projector. It has a totally, er... 'functional' interface (if you know what I mean), but it really does help to visualize the real appearance of your world.

All you have to do (once you work out what all the controls are for), is load your equirectangular map into it, and you can change the projection to whatever you so please.

For me it helps to get a better image in my mind of where everything is, since you can use a real world outline superimposed on your map to give you just as many mental reference points as you like.

It also shows up any polar adjustments you may need to make to stop a map that was born flat from looking like the land is pinched at the poles when spherical