I am curious about maps and the software to generate them and play with them, but when I tried - a few years ago, admittedly - to dabble in it (I wanted to gene

I am curious about maps and the software to generate them and play with them, but when I tried - a few years ago, admittedly - to dabble in it (I wanted to generate those art-sy nice city maps pictures for my hometown [1]), I was overwhelmed with the ecosystem, all the steps involved, all the options etc. Does anyone have a good introduction to paint a high level picture of this, so someone like me can navigate? [1] https://www.etsy.com/nz/listing/1541532385/dusseldorf-print-print-city-map-art?ref=share_v4_lx https://www.etsy.com/nz/listing/1541532385/dusseldorf-print-...