Method of Making Earth Maps

[MAHRana]

It's annoying having to go though tile by tile, researching biomes, rivers, mountains/hills and resources to make an Earth map. Is there a way of simplifying things or a standard method or something to make it easier? Am i over complicating things?
And is there a way to make settler maps for Civ V yet? Like for example, on hex (100, 20) Rome founds Antium or on hex (50, 45) Songhai is likely to settle? i've seen something similar in the mod files of YNAEMP but it seemed like an idea and i don't think it was actually implemented.

 

[Craig_Sutter]

If you have civ 4, there is a bitmap to map utility that will convert colour coded maps to civ 4 maps. Then you can open them in world builder in civ 5 and use them. Kind of convoluted, but way easier to paint in trrain than do it tile by tile.