Dampfkarte is a free and open source, easy to use software that can be used to create hex maps for board games.
Mainly designed for Steam, maps for any other hex map based game may be created.
DampfKarte supports textures for tiles and is be available for OSX, Linux and Windows.
Here are some key features of "DampfKarte":
· Output of the hex map
· Selection of a tile background (texture / color) in the tools panel
· Drawing of multiple tiles while dragging the mouse
· Zoom in and out
· Save and load a map