MallowTheClouds Maps

[MallowTheCloud 41]

Here 's a link to my Mapp Squad Maps.

First and foremost, this is where I want anybody to post any problems they may have with maps that I have made. I don't want to have low quality maps, so any input is good input!

I have released two map packs, so a search on the STEX for these cities may not return anything by me, but they're in the packs.

The US Edition includes the following regions:

Boston, MA

Cincinnati, OH

Des Moines, IA

Harrisburg, PA

Jackson, WY

Jacksonville, NC

Kansas City, MO

Los Angeles, CA

Madison, WI

Mankato, MN

Memphis, TN

Rochester, NY

Rome, GA

San Jose, CA

Tri Cities, WA

Twin Cities, MN

The International Edition includes the following regions:

Aurillac, France

Barcelona, Spain

Berlin, Germany

Bermuda

Brisbane, Australia

Florence, Italy

Geelong, Australia

Gothenburg, Sweden

Jamaica (not to scale)

Mexico City, Mexico

Monterrey, Mexico

Mornington Peninsula, Australia

Norwich and Great Yarmouth, UK

Rome, Italy

Scotland (not to scale)

Strasborg, France

My individual maps:

1. Duthford

2. Guadalajara, Mexico

3. Saint Augustine, Florida, US

4. Palm Coast, Florida, US

5. Cloudland

6. Singapore

7. Tokyo, Japan

8. North Sydney, Australia

9. Buxton, England

10. Delta, Netherlands

11. Southland Gorge

12. Ottawa, Canada

13. Everett, Washington, US

14. New York City, New York, US

15. Sydney, Australia

16. Long Beach, Washington, US

17. Indianapolis, Indiana, US

18. Portland, Oregon, US

19. Las Vegas, Nevada, US

20. West , Northeast , and Southeast Mallorca

21. Stockton, California, US

22. Central Alps

23. Nushagak Bay, Alaska, US

24. Saint Petersburg, Russia

25. Saskatoon, Canada

26. Jakarta, Indonesia

27. Regina, Canada

28. Chatham Islands, New Zealand

29. Stockholm, Sweden

30. Rivervale

31. Oslo, Norway

32. Bakersfield, California, US

33. Newcastle, Australia, US

34. San Francisco Bay Area, California, US

35. Colorado, US

36. Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

37. Reykjavik, Iceland

38. Columbia River Gorge, US

39. Lafayette, Louisiana, US

40. Long Beach, California, US

41. Wizards Coast

42. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

43. Cairo, Egypt

44. Lisbon, Portugal

45. Florida, US

46. New Jersey, US

47. Oregon, US

48. Laredo, Texas, US

49. Rome, Italy

50. New York State, US

51. Berlin, Germany

52. Harrisonburg, Virginia, US

53. Stratus Cliffs, Cumulus Hills, and Cirrus Plateau

54. Korsør, Denmark

55. Cincinnati, Ohio, US

[RadioheadFan 1]

Righty-o. Can't wait to see some new stuff from you!

RHF

[MallowTheCloud 41]

Ottawa has been released, and is slated to show up soon!

[RadioheadFan 1]

Wow Mallow, great work! Having been to Ottawa myself, I can tell you that it is very realistic and should net plenty of downloads!

 

RHF

[Ninja12 3]

NICE!

[MallowTheCloud 41]

Everett has been released, and is slated to show up soon!

[your_adress_here 11]

Thanks alot for Ottawa! I live there, and I must say this is a very good map!

[airmale007 3]

Great stuff mallow!

[MallowTheCloud 41]

Thanks for all your great comments!!!

[MallowTheCloud 41]

New York City has been released, and is slated to show up soon!

[RadioheadFan 1]

Keep it up Mallow, looking great! That NYC is very close-up, I couldn't even tell it was NYC for a bit, but I suppose it was requested that way.

RHF

[comdude21 6]

Your mapping really is amazing Mallow. You're the biggest contributor to the Mapp Squad so far as far as the amount of time you've put into these maps. Your recent maps look excellent, along with your older ones. You've also taken the bulk of the requests, and I appreciate that as well. Making those scale maps is really hard, and so many of your maps are to exact scale. Great job on all of your maps.

The only thing I saw that wasn't completely accurate on your maps is on the NYC map, with the amount of lakes there. That, and I didn't see the Palisades (Cliffs) in NJ on the Hudson River. As for the lakes, some of them do exist, probably most of them. But some of them, like the Central Park lake, are a bit too big. Not that you should update the map or anything for this, because it's not much of a problem at all. I've had too many lakes on some of my maps too. But other than that, the NYC map looks really good.

Good luck with your future maps. You've become one of the best mappers out there, great job Mallow.

comdude

[your_adress_here 11]

So many New York's! This is probably one of the best! Keep up the good mapping!

[RadioheadFan 1]

Agreed, NYC looks awesome. So many downloads in a short period of time...

RHF

[MallowTheCloud 41]

Date: 4/9/2005 8:57:27 PM
Author: comdude21
Your mapping really is amazing Mallow. You're the biggest contributor to the Mapp Squad so far as far as the amount of time you've put into these maps. Your recent maps look excellent, along with your older ones. You've also taken the bulk of the requests, and I appreciate that as well. Making those scale maps is really hard, and so many of your maps are to exact scale. Great job on all of your maps.


The only thing I saw that wasn't completely accurate on your maps is on the NYC map, with the amount of lakes there. That, and I didn't see the Palisades (Cliffs) in NJ on the Hudson River. As for the lakes, some of them do exist, probably most of them. But some of them, like the Central Park lake, are a bit too big. Not that you should update the map or anything for this, because it's not much of a problem at all. I've had too many lakes on some of my maps too. But other than that, the NYC map looks really good.


Good luck with your future maps. You've become one of the best mappers out there, great job Mallow.


comdude

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Thanks to everybody for all your compliments!!!

And thanks for the information, comdude.

The way SC4 imports maps, it makes the waterways just a bit bigger than they should be. I usually try to resolve that by making the waterways a touch smaller in the greyscale... but the smallest waterways (and lakes) I can't do that with, because they are already only one or two pixels wide.

And, the cliffs are kind of my fault. When I transfered the water template I accidentally made the waterways too wide. So... it's kind of hard to explain... but what I did made it to where the area bordering all the water is low elevation, completely cancelling out any cliffs.


However, the issues can be pretty easily resolved with a little bit of terraforming... so I hope that people don't mind it too much.

[comdude21 6]

I actually had the lake problem on my Burlington, VT map as well. It's not much of an issue at all, and a lot of it can be attributed to rendering too. As for the cliffs, that's alright. It's more important that the Hudson River is accurate as it is on your map.

I forgot to say that this is one of the best NYC maps out there, much better than most of them that I have seen. Ottawa looks awesome as well.

comdude

[MallowTheCloud 41]

Sydney has been released, and is slated to show up soon!

[RadioheadFan 1]

Another Sydney, eh?

RHF

[MallowTheCloud 41]

Yeah, the one before that was north of this map (mostly). They overlap just a bit, but I can assure you they are two very different regions.

[MallowTheCloud 41]

I am attaching a different version of New York City. Some people requested that Manhattan Island be aligned north-south rather than diagonally to amke it easier to build cities on in SC4.

So, here it is, attached to this post.

[MallowTheCloud 41]

Long Beach has been released, and is slated to show up soon!

EDIT: Indianapolis has been released, and is slated to show up soon!

[comdude21 6]

The new maps look great. BTW, you don't have to post both of the requested maps on Saturday anymore. You can post them whenever you want, as long as you upload no more than four maps per week. Just checking that you're aware of this, because it would work better to release them on different days probably.

Again, great job on the new maps. I look forward to more.

comdude

[MallowTheCloud 41]

Date: 4/17/2005 12:31:28 AM
Author: comdude21
The new maps look great. BTW, you don't have to post both of the requested maps on Saturday anymore. You can post them whenever you want, as long as you upload no more than four maps per week. Just checking that you're aware of this, because it would work better to release them on different days probably.


Again, great job on the new maps. I look forward to more.


comdude

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Yep, I knew I didn't have to release them, but I had said previously that I'd release them today... so I did.

This will, of course, not happen in the future. Thanks for the comments!

[MallowTheCloud 41]

Portland has been released, and is slated to show up soon!

[comdude21 6]

Portland looks great! If I'm correct, that's your hometown. Looks like a cool place to live.

I hope it's alright with you if I release Redhawk River tomorrow morning. I had no idea that you were making this Portland map, but still, I don't want to impact it in any way at all. It's a great map.

comdude

[MallowTheCloud 41]

I don't mind at all!

And thanks! Yep, you're right. That's where I live.

I wanted it to kind of be a surprise, and I don't mind at all that you are releasing Redhawk River tomorrow.

[RadioheadFan 1]

Very surprised by the release of Portland, but it's a great map! Job well done!

RHF

[tijn21 2]

yes, very nice region indeed,  but most of your regions are to big for my computer to implement it in the game, it takes hours to load a region... (yeah i know, i should get a faster

computer....)

 

My compliments also for the region you posted april 3rd of the DELTA area in Holland.... Actually it

[MallowTheCloud 41]

Thanks.

And yes, I know the regions are giant... but I don't like just including the downtown area, or the main part of the city.


Thanks for the information about Zeeland... I get my data from here . But, they are not DEM files, they're related .hgt files.

[tijn21 2]

a big thanx for the data but what program do you use to view the .hgt files?

 

tijn21