If this is a map for a whole country you probably need an overland mapping style. CC3 comes with a small collection of default styles. If you click the New Map |CC2NEW|button, pick the Overland Maps type and the Decide settings myself option, the Next dialog you get will reveal which overland styles you currently have available.

I've been here for years and have all the overland styles, but if you are only just starting you may only have a one or two. One of them will be the CC3 Mike Schley Overland style, which is one of the most flexible and useful mapping styles we have.

Pick your choice of style and click Next, which will take you to a window where you will have settings you can make, such as for the size of the map you want.

If this is the first map you have made I recommend watching this live mapping video. The sound track is a bit messed up before the start point I have given you a couple of minutes in.

This is a live mapping session by Ralf that demonstrates what can be done using Cosmographer. I've given you a link to the right place in the video for how to draw a starship (which I think was of more than one level), but if you've never used Cosmographer before you might want to start at the beginning.

I hope that helps :)

I've managed to get a few mesas, canyons and buttes together.

I decided that the compass was too big for the standard 100 mile scalebar (the one above really is 500 miles at default scale), so I made another 2 to go with the smaller scale bars - removing a level of detail for each one. I hope you still like them.

Here's a quick scale bar and compass.