I’m discovering there are not so many tutorials for creating my own custom neighborhoods as I might like. Here’s what I’ve got so far:
EA Sims site article: The most basic info.
Articles at TSR:
Cerulean Talon: Make your own Neighborhood (for now) and Updating Neighborhood Screenshot (for later). These tutrials have lots of pictures and are very easy to follow.
Articles at MTS2 (thank you for the links Jade!):
Creating Custom Neighborhoods by travellersside: Very helpful tutorial, and a great place to start.
Patul’s Quick Guide to Creating Neighborhoods: Way more technical than travellers, but still useful.
More Neighborhood Tricks by Patul: Again, Patul is quite technical, but if you can follow along this is a good tutorial on how to use a real life map to create a sims 2 neighborhood.
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=118117
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=171480
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=174147
But I learned by trial and error and working at it for over two months. The effort was worth it.