"mr.sumo snr." <mr_sumo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bue3i3$glspi$1@ID-141600.news.uni-berlin.de...
> There's obviously some marvelous little piece of Japanese software that
> shops and businesses use to draw handy maps of their location for
newspaper
> ads and the like.

Being the cheap-assed bastard that I am, whenever I have needed to draw a
map I have downloaded the map from mapion, then added the required
text/lines/other bits in photoshop.

That said, this program looks really cool, if a bit pricey:
http://tinyurl.com/22qsu

This one is cheaper at 3,000 yen, and has a trial version...
http://tinyurl.com/34x89

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Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom