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Hey guys, im in a second year African history class and it caught me off guard through trying to be a geography class. I need to create a map of Africa and label some tribes, highlands, etc. So ya if you guys know what the best program is to generate a map or just sorta draw with for this purpose i would greatly appreciate it. 

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Hey guys, im in a second year African history class and it caught me off guard through trying to be a geography class. I need to create a map of Africa and label some tribes, highlands, etc. So ya if you guys know what the best program is to generate a map or just sorta draw with for this purpose i would greatly appreciate it. 

google images home slice, trace that shit onto a sheet of A4  or 8.5 / 11 paper, label that shit and bobs your uncle. 

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What do you mean draw? Like just drawing of your imported image? Well then you can try:

 

Paint.NET:

http://www.getpaint.net/

 

Great, free program, easy to use for people who aren't used to using GIMP, but you could also use GIMP, but I find GIMP kind of confusing, but that's just me.

 

Edit: I may have miss-understood. You can just google "Map of africa" or "Map Of africa black" and go to images, download the image by right clicking, then save image. Print it off, and then draw on it like that. Then you're golden!

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GIMP is the shizzle. You can have an infinite amount of layers (I think), so it's very useful for drawing maps.

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

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The best software for making maps would be ArcGIS but it is going way over your needs. I'd say Inkscape is good for this. Or MS Publisher is you have full Office package. Gimp is good but doing things for report or slide show is annoying because of scaling issues.

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