Map making software

Does anyone have experience of making their own customised maps? All the map making software I have come across use pre determined templates. You can change the colours and add labels but you can't redraw the boundaries and create your own maps.

A long time ago, when I still had a desktop computer, i used Microsoft Paintbox. That did everything I wanted. I write history presentations and would rather draw my own maps than use ones I have found on the Internet.

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emmasfriend · 46-50, F

Even the one which purport to show "current reality" are dubious.

I remember shifting from google earth - a satellite view of my house - to street view, to find that it had the wrong address. The picture of my house has my next-door neighbour's address !

Zero consequences so far for several years.

No idea why they expended so much dosh to photograph each property !

I have used it once to show someone in another country where I live; I have also given a link to someone to show where I used to live in France. What is the commercial value in that to google ? Absolutely notthing.

Maybe it is some sort of "I have mapped the world" syndrome .