Well, I wouldn't want to disappoint Woodzy, so here you are...

Thoughts before installing - I actually already don't like it. Just the plain and bare page design, the screenshot that looks like it was taken on a Windows 95 machine, and the fact that the news page says it was started in 2003 and hasn't been updated since 2005... Screenshot makes it look like an annoyingly more complex Paint program, let's see how it does in testing...

During testing - Well... It has a large amount of largely unrecognizable or oddly drawn clip art. They also apparently couldn't decide which perspective they wanted, as some things are drawn from a straight down view, others from a straight ahead view, and still others at any number of odd angles. Drawing seems harder than it should be for a map making program... Wait, what? There's a guns and lasers and missiles section amongst all the terrain and city drawing clip arts... I guess that works, depending on what kind of campaign you're running. Okay, rotating and resizing and whatnot else is easy enough, that's a plus for it. I'm left wondering... What does this have that I couldn't manage to draw by hand? ...Granted, we play online, so I haven't hand drawn anything...

I strongly urge you to look into MapTools and the other Tools programs on that site. I only just discovered them myself, but they've easily replaced the old Game Table program we used to use. They have bunches of tutorial videos for it, as well as tons of downloadable images to use in it (I got the first of a number of downloads, and it had 2.72 gigs worth of images in it). The maps you can create are pretty damned realistic, and it has the advantage (for us, anyway) of also being a program like Game Table that you can host games online with.

Just MapTool version Whatever the latest version number happens to be. We may try the others, but I think MapTool has everything we're looking for.

Also, they have a torrent file of images that can be used in the program, grab it if you can. It's pretty damn big, 2.72 gigs of images, but it's worth it, friggin tons of stuff to use and play with. I'm also not sure if my having everything will give you all access to it when we play.