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About This File
Welcome to a bigger Toronto! This is my first attempt at a map, sosuggestions and comments are welcomed. This map is sized 3713 x 2497pixels, that's 59km x 40km stretching from Squire Beach in Pickering(nuclear power station) to the Rattray Park Estates area in Missisaugua(near the refinery). This is a perfect map for recreation project forthe GTA. The whole of Megacity will fit, and then some.
This map was made using the DEM data readily downloadable fromwww.geobase.ca using the only available four DEM sheets covering theToronto area. The map was rotated -17 degrees from the north so thatmost of Toronto's grid can fit nicely. Horizontal and vertical scaleswere adjusted from the NAD 83 projection. The scale was finally checkedusing the Toronto Islands, hope the rest of game play will be good.
Things that need to be improved: The waterfront and the waterways needto be edited in game. Many of the pixels were blurred and disturbedduring all that rotating and scaling. If anyone has time, you arewelcome to update the jpeg with a more defined coastline. I decided toleave the rivers and coast as is because I figure all that will bere-worked during game play.
One possibility is to edit thegreyscale and trace out the water. Just change the shade upstream whereyou judge is the location of water. However that would make the streamscame off a cliff at some places upstream. You can also overlay the mapwith another one showing the waterline at the same scale, and "carve"out the rivers that way. This greyscale would give you a good base towork with.
The screenshot was rendered from Region Census, showing the Toronto Islands and much of the Toronto Proper.
This is the first installment of the World Great Cities Series. Socheck back for more accurate scale maps of world's great cities!
Enjoy!
-kvasir
