A question about map creation

[melnorjr]

I found a picture I want to use, added in all my white pixels for provinces, went into the map editor and it had all the provinces shown, then went to create game just to look at it...and it shows 0 land and 0 sea provinces. Do I actually have to go into the .map file and type #newprovince (#) 288 times? is there some crucial step I'm missing?

I read a guide somewhere on map creation, but it didn't say anything that seemed to help. I tried telling it to randomize names, then saved and checked the .map and it had names for all the provinces, but still 0 provinces in the game.