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Famous for its sausages, european insitutions and UNESCO-classified medieval city centre here is Strasbourg.

 

Capital of the Alsace region, Strasbourg is the 7th most populated city in France (272,975) and the 9th largest urban area (638,670). It's situated on the Rhine river that sets the border with Germany though the city centre is located around the Ill river, the Rhine shores being used by the Port of Strasbourg (2nd most important on the river after Duisburg in Germany).

 

The map is 12x12km with 9 large cities and covers most of the metropolitan area (including most of Kehl on the german side of the Rhine). It's scaled and accurate (though I had to remove some small islands that didn't render well).

 

Should you wish to add some realism to your city you might consider using JEC's Place de l'Homme de Fer which is Strasbourg's main tram station.

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/files/file/12687-place-de-lhomme-de-fer/

 

The attached zip contains the config, the map in png format and the screenshot.

 

I made this map because I liked the way there are rivers almost everywhere with the island at the center and thought it could be an interesting sandbox for making a medium-sized metropolis, I hope you'll like it too.

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for a second i thought the map was strasburg, like Washington Nationals pitcher stephen strasburg

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Frex_Ceafus > Thanks.

TowerDude > Thanks. Though being french I've never been there myself actually, that's quite a shame. I think I'm going to make several other french cities, maybe Bordeaux next.

evanm1487 > I have no idea who this Stephen Strasburg guy is but I believe there is at least one Strasburg city ine the US. Thanks anyway.
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how do you install the png file, I have never heard of that format and my game doesn't recognize it. When I click on the png file there is nothing happening like with a jpeg file. I have tried for several hours with no luck and I have also consulted the forums with no luck at all. It seems that people are installing this fine but not me, what am I doing wrong? thanks.
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skyscraper24 > Thanks.

christropolis > Personaly I don't use the in-game feature (CTL+ALT+SHIFT+R) to render the maps so I'm afraid I'm not going to be able help you with that. Actually I use SC4Terraformer https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/files/file/21375-sc4-terraformer/ which I find much more practical and fast to render maps.

With this method after you have downloaded and unziped SC4Terraformer (no installation needed if believe) you have to create a folder named "Strasbourg" in Documents > Sim City 4 > Regions. You put the config inside this folder (you can also put the png here or leave it where you unziped it). You open SC4Terraformer and select Strasbourg in the list. The next screen you see the tiles of the config, just click ok. Close the overview window. Click on "global tools" in the left menu, then click "import image", browse your computer content to select the png file of the map in the folder where you have it and click ok. Your cpu will then render the map which shouldn't take long since the map isn't very large. Once it's finished go to File > Save (ctrl+s). Then you can quit and head to the game where the region should have been created.

This might seem a bit complicated but it's actually very simple and fast once you get acustomed.

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wow, that's all there is to it? Thank you so much for your help and detailed instructions, I was able to install three maps with no problems.
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