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About This File
Map Details and Information
Birmingham is the largest city in the state of Alabama and is the county seat of Jefferson County. It also includes part of Shelby County. The population of the city was 229,800 according to the 2007 estimate. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, as of the 2008 census estimates, has a population of 1,198,932. It is also the largest city in the Birmingham-Hoover-Cullman Combined Statistical Area, colloquially known as Greater Birmingham, which contains roughly one quarter of the population of Alabama. If nearby counties Tuscaloosa, Etowah, Talladega, & Calhoun are added to the Greater Birmingham population it would exceed over 1.7 million as of 2008.
Birmingham was founded in 1871, just after the U.S. Civil War, as an industrial enterprise. It was named after Birmingham, one of the UK's major industrial cities. Through the middle of the 20th century, Birmingham was the primary industrial center of the Southern United States. The astonishing pace of Birmingham's growth through the turn of the century earned it the nicknames "The Magic City" and "The Pittsburgh of the South". Much like Pittsburgh in the north, Birmingham's major industries were iron and steel production.
Over the course of the 20th century, the city's economy diversified. Though the manufacturing industry maintains a strong presence in Birmingham, other industries such as banking, insurance, medicine, publishing, and biotechnology have risen in stature. Birmingham has been recognized as one of the top cities for income growth in the United States South with a significant increase in per capita income since 1990.
Today, Birmingham ranks as one of the most important business centers in the Southeastern United States and is also one of the largest banking centers in the U.S. In addition, the Birmingham area serves as headquarters to one Fortune 500 company: Regions Financial. Five Fortune 1000 companies are headquartered in Birmingham
Map Specifics
Map Type: Real World
Region map size: Map is configured for 80 large city tiles and is 10x8 in size.
config.bmp size: included with zip file
Dependencies: Either SC4 Mapper or SC4 Terraformer for importing.
Maps were created by taking USGS DEM elevation data.
Install/Uninstall Instructions
Installing the Map
To install SC4M map file:
1. Unzip this file.
2. Run SC4Mapper, click on 'create region'
3. Choose SC4M
4. Browse to the unzipped folder and point the map file .SC4M
5. Click on 'Save Region' and name it, and Quit SC4Mapper
6. Run SC4 and load the new region. The colors of the region in SC4 will be the same colors as SC4Mapper until you enter and save each city tile. But you have the choice to do it as you go and not right away.
SC4Terraformer
1. Create a new region folder in your Plugins\Region
2. Copy my config.bmp into the folder and overwrite the old one. (make changes to config.bmp file now if you want)
3. Open the new region you just created with SC4 Terraformer
4. Click on Import Image in the Global Tools Menu and browse for my SC4M file.
5. When file is imported click File - Save (the region is now saved to SC4
6. The colors of the region in SC4 will be the same colors as SC4TF until you enter and save each city tile. But you have the choice to do it as you go and not right away.
Start opening tiles!
Credits
blade2k5 - Original map creation, scaling, importing. SC4TF modification.
papab2000 - Original map creation, scaling, importing. SC4TF modification.
Check out other maps by blade2k5 and NHP
Feedback and Support
NHP SimCity4 Devotion Support -https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?board=66.0
NHP Simtropolis Support Thread - https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/categories.cfm?catid=355&entercat=y
Any comments and feedback welcomed. Thanks for looking and enjoy.
