I'm on a [map]quest...

...auspicious... my first post on these forums... exciting times...

so yeah. I'm working on a campaign setting for d20 modern and I wanted to crank out some decent maps or at least useful tiles to accompany some of the adventure hooks I'm writing for it. there are, I've found, metric assloads (that's 1.6 imperial assloads) of fantastic mapping resources for fantasy settings, but aside from the 'official' map books for d20m and a few (admittedly pretty spiffy) tilesets I've stumbled upon online, it's kinda hard to find some of the locations I wanna use - specifically subway terminals and tunnels. my hand-drawing abilities leave quite a bit to be desired, and I'm a little reluctant to just rip off some of the fallout 3 metro maps I have sitting around on my computer. is anyone aware of any decent free (or cheap) subway maps or tilesets I might be able to utilize, or else a mapping resource with enough modern[ish] bits here and there that I might be able to slap something together using it? my apologies if there's already a thread for this; I'm still finding my way around here. thanks d00ds!

My usual starting point for maps (if I'm willing to spend a bit of cash) is DriveThruRPG or RPGNow (same thing, really).

In this case, the first three search results are wholly applicable:
Master Plan Modern: Subway - UKG Publishing | DriveThruRPG.com
Battlemap : Subway Station - Christian Hollnbuchner | DriveThruRPG.com
Shaman Stockart Modern Pack #1 - Shaman's Stock Art | DriveThruRPG.com

Best of luck.

thanks for the links - I'll take a look and see how much money we're talking about. my wife and I brought our first baby home two weeks ago, so we're really not feeling very spendy at the moment. at the same time though, if the materials are of a high enough quality, the creators ought to be compensated for their hard work - if the money's there to be spent. thanks again.

Maptools has a fairly large art pack you can download. I have it and there is art for all kinds of genres. Here is a link to a post about it: MapTool resources - Giant in the Playground Forums

That happens to link to a torrent of it, so you'll need to be familiar with bittorrent to get it. Otherwise, I believe it is mentioned in the maptools tutorial stuff.

The sprawl maps set for shadow run had great 28mm subway and urban maps. Ill snap a few pics for ya.