City of EDMONTON

[Mexicanboy13r 12]

so much detail.. Just look at your freeway system. I really like the curve.. I can't do that! just amazing!

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

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[Ded 30]

It still looks fab...


And I get it... I think.

[wdimagineer 0]

This city is amazing! You have done so many things that I used to think were impossible. Keep up the great work. It is amazingly realistic and I am impressed by the exactness of the roads.

[NintendoMaster128 30]

Telus Plaza Building A
Model by DudyConstructor
Nitelites by Me, (NintendoMaster12
https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//Telus%20Plaza%201564.JPG align=baseline>

[jarcher 0]

Oooh.  Telus Plaza...though the model makes it look shorter than the real building is for some reason (I work a block from it).  But it's looking good.

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

This was great to see when I woke up this morning. It's been a while but NintendoMaster128 has decided to finish the Telus Plaza. With the nightlites, textures, and renduring left to do. I'm really anxious to see NintendoMaster finish Dudy's great model of the building. This is one of Edmonton's headline skyscrapers and will be a great addition to the Region. Thanks again and looking forward to more progress.

[Dargor 17]

Date: 2/8/2005 3:40:49 PM
Author: TheJerseyDevil73
Roads Complete in Millwoods

After laying down roads in Millwoods on and off for the better part of a year this area is finished. There are a few nieghboring areas that need to be completed. After that the entire South Side of the city will be complete. The largest gap right now is NE Edmonton. Funny the area I grew up in is the last area to be finished.

I have a question about this road-lay out you made... How did you manage to make it look like we can all kinds of curves in the game? Of any degree?  It looks so perfect... It is just a matter of one straight tile, then a curve, straight again and so on to get a certain curve over a longer distance? (if you know what I mean). Can you post a screenshot from the Millwood-region itself? I am curious how it looks like in detail... I would like to create such myself!

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

Dargor : Thanks for the request. I never rarely show any area without developement. Just for the fact it looks a little choppy without developement around it. But once you build around these curvey areas they come to life and look much better.
Here are two pictures of the empty Millwoods roads and then a picture of a developed area in NW Edmonton to show the effect buildings have with these roads.

[Dargor 17]

Thanks a lot!! I have a better idea now... I might try to build a neighbourhood like you, to see if it's something for me... That means: creating the roads and streets first, in a certain pattern... It looks really nice!

[packersfan 666]

TJD Can you post a picture of your freeway interchanges???

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

Packersfan : There are a variety of interchanges posted on previous pages. Any new ones I build I will post when done. There are a couple left in the SE to do. And many need alot of work. But I know I posted pictures of interchanges 3 or 4 times.

[kingofsimcity 5,740]

The way you lay roads in city view make the region pictures of the transportation sytem looks like if roads really curve.

[kvasir 1]

How do you determine which are streets and which are roads? From a map I can classify the wider ones as avenues. And then those wider throughfares with only a few intersections i classify them as highways.

For Regina, since I don't actually live there, I can only use common sense to classify roads and streets based on intersection types. As you know roads form signal-controlled intersections at avenues Does that influence your classification on street type as well? Or is it based strictly on whatever works best for traffic volume? I also notice roads allow better depiction of curves since you can do diagonals with roads, but not streets.

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

kvasir : To determin which ones are roads I usually know Edmonton well enough to place where each one is. In the curved areas though I usually place a road on ones that connect to avenues and go for a good distance. Then with streets continueing off the roads. For roads in straight areas I know there are a few streets in the city I have to upgrade. Most of my region is roads and believe it or not I don't have many or any commute problems so far.
Really good work on Regina by the way. Where do you live? if not there...

[kvasir 1]

Thanks TJD. I think i'm in the opposite situation as you are. I've laid down most of what i have so far as roads and avenues. Only the few streets that show up really narrow on the map did I classified as streets. But with the residential inner city grid i'm running into huge traffic problem with signal-control intersections every 5 or 6 tiles. So i've decided to downgrade many of the roads to streets as I start to zone the core neighbourhoods.  And then there's the deal with alley ways, which i'll have to omit.

I was gonna work on a recreation of Toronto (where I live), but I've decided to put that off (beside it being an over-ambitious project) because I got frustrated with the grid being just a couple of degrees off than from the map grid.  What I real really want is to recreate Calgary, where I was living for awhile before moving out east. But there's no DEM available for the city as yet, not even on geobase.

[frogface 354]

the attention to detail is amazing, those curved roads...well [:0]

[bobinator 0]

Those suburbs are just amazing! Those streets must have taken you forever to do! Looks great!

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

Whats new with Edmonton...

Over the past few days there has been no updates on the City Journal. I've been busy laying a mass amount of roads in my effort to complete the road network for the City. The NE is the major area that needed to be finished. By either tonight or tomorrow this entire area should be complete. This should be one of the largest road updates in months and should take the region to 95% completion of roads. From there the region should really start growing and have more interesting updates.
Keep posted. I'm anxious to get these roads finished as boring as laying them may be.

[brtlrt 0]

Amazing!  I have missed so much in just a month!    The Quesnell Bridge area which I know so well looks a little off but whatever, it still looks amazing.

[fartboy 17]

A little late of a reply, and sorry for the critisism, but that doesn't look exactly like the telus building. Close tho. If you're from the Edmonton area you'd get what I mean. Pretty good job tho. And if it's possible, you should try to do the christmas tree night lights. That'd be so cool.

[fartboy 17]

I know I posted this somewhere, but I cant find it, so I'll ask again. Are you doing Sherwood Park? If so, post a pic of Davidson Creek. Mine's the yellow house in a cul-de-sac by 7-11. (Not that ur going to that extreme).  And I know this is extremely late of  a reply MTLT_17, but I know there's a CN tower in Edmonton, I see it every tuesday and thursday skiing with Northern Alberta Freestyle at the Edmonton Ski club on Connor's hill, but the CN tower in Toronto popped into my head first.

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

canadianhockeyfreak : That doesn't look like the Telus building? Perhaps you are thinking of a Telus Building in another city? Dudyconstructors model of the Telus building is exact except the roof. Unless you fly over it often I'm not sure you wouldn't be able to pick that up as the building not looking right. Here is a previous post once again to show that you can't get it any closer then what it is.



brtlrt : using SimCity4 as your tool. What needs changed along Fox Drive? This is an area I see less then 10 times a year. From past feedback I was told is is very close?

[seas123 0]

wow these buildings are amazing, hey this might be my last post for Edmonton because i am getting my internet turned off do to umm reasons (not anything to do with *love*  (get what i mean) related subjects, believe me).  I am going to miss seeing this city everyday, but this may be a good thing because now i can do more homework.  I like the building because it looks so realistic, you could use that building and no one would really know the difference.  Well thanks for keeping this CJ for this long.  Hopefully in a couple months i will have a new ISP.  Great job, and when i do come back, i cant wait to see the results!

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

NE Roads Complete!

After hours upon hours of laying roads this week I finally finished NE Edmonton. This is one of Edmontons hardest areas. With a few areas in the actual city left and St.Albert in the far NW the roads are nearly finished for this region.



-Before-




And again a link to a full sized view of the transportation map...
http://img152.exs.cx/img152/4401/edmontonfeb14c6hl.jpg

[+Guest]

OMG Jersey Devil

this is just UNBELIEVABLE

I can remember; lots and LOTS of months ago... I think you started with the railyards in the north, right?

and I thought; here's someone again who is gonna try it... But OH MY WORD; YOU DID IT

and now you're gonna develop the whole region... BRILLIANT

Keep up the good work and greetz of your No1 fan from the Netherlands

[nofunk 1,933]

I check in on this project periodically and every time I'm awed by it! Everything looks just incredible, JerseyDevil!!!

One of these days I hope to create my hometown of Milwaukee . . . and you better believe I will be taking lots of ideas from you! If that's all right, of course!

Great work!

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

ejc : Thanks, anyone who knows me on Simtropolis knows I don't often give up at anything. I'm stuburn and often go for the extra nail in the coffin. It may take a while but this region will be finished. Maybe another year for it to be complete. This is the only game and now only region I play. Plus with new tools and ways of building things my speed has doubled.

nofunk : If you ever start up Milwaukee and you need any help with scales or how to recreate an accurate city just ask. Hope you try it and good luck. I like trying other peoples efforts at recreating cities. There are a few others that stand out aswell.

[Vigo_Zerox 0]

Hey nice progress on the ne but i have some news recently i have obtained a letter from the city and it shows an approved plan of how their changing the agriculter area nearby to residential etc for examplke 50th street is going to curver to the right if possible i will scan the letter i got and post it up =P

[Prophecy 0]

god damn !  woot

i think it looks neat