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I build fictional worlds as a hobby, and sometimes I need to make a map of a globe and find myself in need of a program that can draw vector shapes onto a globe and project it onto a 2D map afterwards. The simplest way I've found to do that which fits my workflow is a program called GPlates. A program that simulates plate tectonics. I've never touched the simulation part, although it might be useful in my worldbuilding at some point. All I use it for is drawing colored shapes.

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Honestly, that seems to be a common use case for GPlates (see eg[0][from 1]), and might even be more common than actually using it for plate tectonics work.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQvwgPFSN-I

1: http://www.youtube.com/user/Artifexian