Do you make your own maps?

[ArmySGT.]

I may make up some of my own maps using Google Earth, MS Picture Manager, and MS Powerpoint.

Such as these base line images of Kalisz.

Area overview


Town Center

[ArmySGT.]

Kalisz Rail system Large overview


Kalisz bridge Large Overview


Kalisz bridge small


The Bight

[ArmySGT.]

Kalisz Railyard Large


Kalisz Railyard small


Kalisz Rail Station Large


Kalisz Rail Station Medium


Kalisz Rail Station Small

[ArmySGT.]

Krakow Area

[Adm.Lee]

One of my players in my high school campaigns sent me a street map of Krakow after he'd enlisted and gone to Berlin. My subsequent games there had a lot more detail. That, of course, was before the Web.

So far, I still hand-draw maps on the battlemat.

[atiff]

I use Google Maps a lot, but all my playing at the moment is online (RPOL) so it is easiest that way...

If I were to GM face-to-face now, I would also use Google Maps as my 'plan' for an area. It obviously shows the 'real world' at a point in time, and is nicer than anything I can come up with on my own from a blank page. If I do it all myself, I always forget things (hedgelines, trees, random buildings, etc.).

I do the same when I am doing tabletop wargaming too, for the same reasons.