Drawing Wraparound Maps - Any Tips?

[Zylithan]

Pasha - I just finished one and am working on another. They are a pain in the *** for me. (Although I did some things that made them harder).

I recommend using layers, had one layer for the white dots and for country borders, and another layer for the pictures. This way the pictures could be changed easily.

If your map has lots of graphics, it might be nice to be careful about the edge areas, or wrapping won't match up nicely. If you are using a program with tilesets or some such to make your map, I might recommend having your map have the same thing on the top and bottom row and far left and right columns, and then you can crop it such that the wraparound works just perfect.

I'm probably doing it wrong, but maybe half of my work on my first map went into making it wrap properly.