Inkwell Ideas Free World Map and Hexographer Pro

Some questions came up about 2 of Inkwell Ideas products, the Worldmap.jar and Hexographer Pro. I am in no way affiliated with Inkwell Ideas but I do own both products and think very highly of them. I though I would do a short overview of the 2 of them if you have more questions and I will do what I can to answer them.

First is the free world map generator which you can get from here. It is a Java app so just about anyone should be able to use it. It looks like this.

Uggh to small here is a link. Across the top you can set the hex width, planet size, Land percentage, Mountain percentage, Vegetation percentage and Temperature. Hex Width I believe is in pixels, Size is rated from 9 to 35 so I don't know what that means and the rest are rated as Min; Low; Med; High and Max. When you start it it always generates a map then you fiddle with the drop downs and hit the recreate button and get  a map.

I didn't think you could edit the map because I own Hexographer so that is where I did my editing but the strip of symbols under the map are the editing tools. Like hexographer it is easy to use, click the hex you want to add to the map than click the map hex you want to change. When you are satisfied you can export it to Hexographer, export as a PNG, Load one you have made before or save the map in the native format of the world map app.

With Hexographer pro you can open the world map you saved and it looks like this.

Again sorry for the size here is a link I have dual monitors which doesn't help with the image size. As you can see Hexographer Pro doesn't have the clipping issue the free version does. I should add this is a different world map than the one above. There are tons more stuff you can do editing wise in Hexographer than World map including changing the entire Icon set so you can do B&W

Notice that custom icon sets replace the standard hexes so if you don't have an alternate of a certain terrian it stay the base one, jungle in this case. Link here
For another example is Red Kobold's Calligraphy icon set link Here

There is a ton more hexographer does but I need to get ready for work so here is a quick list
GM only flag so you can make player maps from your map
Attach notes to each hex
Draw shapes (polygons)
make zoomed in maps from you main map
You don't have to start from world map it has a built in world map template
add text
add lines
Whine over on the forum and the designer will do his best to help you, really have seen it happen.
Any questions and I will try my best to answer with screen shots if I am at home.