Real world Maps and GIS?

[Stryke11]

I've been wondering about doing a screen capture from Google Maps Satellite of just my area (the San Francisco Bay) and making a map out of it. My only prob is I have no idea at all how to set provinces, borders, that kind of stuff.

For those that know the area, maybe Pangaea as Marin county, Ulm as San Jose/Silicon Valley, Oakland could be Ermor (the local football team, the Raiders, has a skull and crossbones as their icon), SF could contain a few different nations with smaller provinces, like Tien Chi in Chinatown, Marignon or Eriu in North Beach (The humans or Eriu sound like the Milanese, who are Italian). Vanheim could be Alcatraz, with sailing opportunities to all over the place - neat.

I'm sure everyone could do one of their 'hood. The boroughs of New York would be awesome.