Sorry to butt-in but there are eaiser ways to make ralistic state maps--with all of the trimmings; and I mean defined lakes, realistic river crossings and even sea floor elevations--the only limit to your nation is the actual "SC4" program that may not let you enter specific elevations to scale. BUT...if you wanted to make each state--to scale, the best it could be possibly done--it would take me roughly 3 weeks (on my off time) to convert all of the states to scale, so they are scaled to each other and to the be as acurate to an actual map. I't wouldn't be much trouble, I would just need 2 different maps for each state; 1st a "real" color map showing above sea-level growth and 2nd a US map showing elevation. I do it all the time to render 3D graphics for animation.
