I found the effect, edge striping. I've fiddled with it a bit, but not sure which way i like it. I think I'll wait till the map is done to decide.

Rivers and mountains pretty well done, though there are still some problems with rivers running through mountains and connecting to other bodies of water.

Upload without the edge striping for comparison.

I've started to map out an area along the equator on my main FT3 world. Just a lot of mountains so far. I made the mountains smaller to better give a sense of the size of the area, which is roughly 3500 X 1800 miles.

This is a great first map. Certainly much better than my first.

So my computer's hard drive failed last week and I may have to redo these. I ended up buying a new computer, which I'm hoping will last for a while.

@Wyvern Some really great comments here. I did actually change the scaling on the area map, as it was really bothering me as well. I'll post it at the end of the comment. Your notes about the village are very good ones. I guess I was thinking I wanted the inn and the craftsman near the trading area, as it made sense to me that these would be services that would be used by traveling merchants and farmers. It seemed odd to have the brewery too far from the river, but I think at this point your probably right. The problem is probably in the placement of the market area. As for the warehouses, I meant them really to hold grain from the farms surrounding the village. Thanks so much for your in depth comments.

Oh, also... "The Lost Caves" are the location of a system of caves that appear in an adventure I wrote. Since the area map is meant to form a map for that adventure and a few others, I included it, but definitely a GM's map.

I wanted to share a couple maps I've done recently to see what people think of them. These are two maps in my campaign world, one a local area map and the other a village map.