I would consider a 20-mile-map as being a regional map (like a county map), it is technically not a World map and saves you from many of the issues in mapping a spherical round world globe like Earth size. Then turn the grid overlay on, with proper settings so that the measurement tool will match the scale that you want, and so that you'll have plenty of hexes within that canvas, to move around and play games on it. Use roll20 drawing tools to draw your shapes/outlines (such as rivers and roads, coastline, mountain-hills or other features). Put either the ocean (blue) or the ground (green or brown) to cover the entire background and then start painting geography on top of that using the freehand draw tool, or the polygon tool, for either Lines or Shapes with fills. Basically for what you described, I would recommend disabling the grid, make a blank canvas of the right settings and size. An actual large world map would be more like 200-Million miles, so take comfort, 20 miles is easier! I am happy to either try to describe some Settings and techniques to you here in forum text, OR, if you are interested, you can Start A Game, and invite me into it, and I will dialog with you in your game table to get your map started.
It may make things look like doodles but at least it's consistent and has few restraints. all I'm looking to do is make a map that is maybe 20 miles at the most, I prefer drawing the environment by hand rather than importing pictures. I'm sure some other users will be coming along to answer as well. Seeing an example of a Map that you want to emulate, I think I can provide more pointers then. Can you post a picture or link some sort of example of a world map that you like & want to create? Are you wanting to make a "hex crawl", or a globe, or a flat-looking global or continent map like the Mercator projection? There are just so many ways of doing it, starting with the choice of making the map in an external graphics program, or buying map elements and tiles from Roll20 marketplace, and/or assembling maps using graphics from the in-game search. Wiki Docs with more info about grids and snapping, There are so many ways to make a large world map! I love that.
Other than the snapping issue, Hex grids work nicely. You are correct that Snap To Grid does not snap to the Hex grid, but instead seems to snap to an underlying square grid.
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