Thanks very much for the offer. I'll think about it when I do a new map. Mapping is currently at a stand still anyway.

Edit: I understand the drawing tools (if that is even the right thing to describe it) that allow one to backspace when a line goes astray are different from the polygon tools and since I use the polygon tools for contours, rivers, roads, and maybe some other things I just think of them as contour line tools. Obviously my contour lines using the drawing tool have perhaps hundreds of points and when I inevitably make a mistake my recourse is to delete it and start over. Obviously, it is very demoralizing.

It seems to me that being able when composing either a line or polygon, the backspacing capability without everyone having to make a "special" tool would be good for everybody. But I probably don't understand all details about doing so.

My hands as well as my eyes make it harder to draw with precision.

Thank you for your very kind author, I hit the save/send button before my thought was fully composed. Perhaps before I start with my next map, I will take you up on the offer to learn to compose that specialized catalog feature to draw my contour/polygon lines.

P.S. I had to buy a new computer and thus far I have not attempted to load CC3+, the annuals, or my work on the new computer.

The main thing that occurs to me is to be able to use the backspace button (or something else) to back up if you have an issue with the drawing. Some of the programs (?) have this ability, but they are limited in the number of contours (usually 4 or 5) provided. I think you told me, but it could have been anyone on the forum, that this was relatively 'easy' to add, but I never figured it out, so when I had a mistake, I was forced to go back and redo the whole contour line.

Another useful thing would be to have all the symbols that are used by contour maps to be in a single symbol catalog. I tried a number of times to compose such a thing, but in the end, I just made a list of where to go for a particular symbol.

Several people gave me advice how to do the above, but I could never make it work.

On the other hand, things might have been much easier if I had a tablet with a pen instead of using a mouse. Very hard on the the thumb, especially when it was broken in bayonet drill. It still pains me 50 years or so later. :)

I've not mounted them on the wall, but they can take up my wargaming table. This was a 4 sheet map (each sheet was 17 x 11 inches) and took up most of the space at 1:50,000 scale. Sometimes I have to use 2 tables to hold the map.

This next map covers the region my Regiment operated in Germany during the Cold War. It actually covers more than my map table can hold. It too is 1:50,000. Each hex = 3km.

https://forum.profantasy.com/discussion/9781/here-i-go-again#latest

Making maps for the war games I designed. Alas, too expensive to try to sell them anymore.

A sad day. Jim was very good as well as being prolific. He gave me some inspiration.