Show us your city, road or transit maps!

[Evil Weasel 88]

Your style is somewhat similar to Montr

[dedgren 830]

It's been a while since I've posted a 3RR map here, so here's two.

I remain fascinated by the idea of doing topo maps for my region.  Here's the start of one I did recently in connection with some of the backstory for a quad.  It's processed output from the TerraFormer layered over a map from the game.

Here's the most current map of 3RR.

Click here [ linkie ] for the 2048x2048 version, which will open (slowly) in a new window.

There's always something going on at 3RR [ linkie ]

David

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

Langstrath Urban Rail, a very small tube system.

Fixed the size of the image.  Please keep all images 800x600 or less.--hym

[GreekMan 246]

great pics

ILL Tonkso: you should have a cj!

[cammo2003 20]

He does, GreekMan.

[JitteryJoe 0]

Here's a pair of maps for Khorstadt, one of two big cities in my current region. One is for the Trams that run around the Old Town in the south and the other is for a Light Rail line along the coast in the north. Both use GLR pieces but with different station types. I might do a full Subway map and a commuter eventually.

[ccecill 52]

Okay. What program do you all use to make these. I have Photoshop and Illustrator CS, so can I do something like this?

[Mulefisk 15]

Originally posted by: ccecill Okay. What program do you all use to make these. I have Photoshop and Illustrator CS, so can I do something like this?quote>

That's pretty much the best program there is for things like this. Good luck!

[Shingure 56]

Here's one that was built in my newest city New Gerrica

And here's the independent maps.

[rushman5 33]

These are some really incredible maps, and dedgren, you never ever cease to amaze me! Kep it up!

[SHADD0W09 2]

im not posting a map im just here to tell you of a new tool i found on the web for mapmaking the sight i found has a load of tools for making street maps and region maps it is used by the pros

http://www.maptext.com/

[JitteryJoe 0]

Originally posted by: ccecill Okay. What program do you all use to make these. I have Photoshop and Illustrator CS, so can I do something like this?quote>

Well I used Macromedia/Adobe Fireworks 8, using lines and autoshapes. You could probably get a similar result with Illustrator.

[Evil Weasel 88]

Full:

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/9895/cartedumetro2tq2.jpg

Thumbnail:

Still Working on this one.

[Mulefisk 15]

Heh.. Offense. Good name for a station in a paris themed metro

[Evil Weasel 88]

I couldn't resist.

[Benedict 3,119]

Hey, MPD01605, nice to see your expanded network.

David, your maps never cease to amaze me - wondeful stuff.

Nice map, IllTonkso, I love your CJ, too.

JitteryJoe - I'd definitely like to see more of your work. I like your development of unique symbols for your transit network.

Shingure - thanks for sharing your work.

Weasel, that really is very Paris-like. Nice reflection of your CJ.

[mentarman 14]

More great maps. Nice job guys.

[opiq 0]

yo guys, what program are you using to make such great maps? i mean, i don't know anything and i only use windows paint to draw my map.. and it's a bit awful, with the blurry and everyhing.. (asked & answered, sorry)

evil weasel, bennedict, buster, dzigns, how do you guys draw your maps? what program do you use?

other thing, do you combine several city tiles of a region to make one city name or your cities are basically one large tile of a region?

thanx...

[Benedict 3,119]

Hi, Opiq

I use photoshop. I generally use the path tool, as well as the marquee tool (both rectangular and elliptical) to make the line outlines. Each line is in a different layer, and as such the color can be changed at will through the Layer Effects tools. I also use copy and paste a lot - no need to re-invent the wheel.

I almost always do my maps with the grid on (makes using the other tools much much easier for simple diagrams).

As far as city tiles go, some of my city transit networks are on one tile, others stretch across more than one. The Eloff El covers one large tile and 2 medium tiles at the moment. Another network that I will feature in the future covers one medium and two small tiles.

Hope that helps.

[Benedict 3,119]

Hi, Opiq

I use photoshop. I generally use the path tool, as well as the marquee tool (both rectangular and elliptical) to make the line outlines. Each line is in a different layer, and as such the color can be changed at will through the Layer Effects tools. I also use copy and paste a lot - no need to re-invent the wheel.

I almost always do my maps with the grid on (makes using the other tools much much easier for simple diagrams).

As far as city tiles go, some of my city transit networks are on one tile, others stretch across more than one. The Eloff El covers one large tile and 2 medium tiles at the moment. Another network that I will feature in the future covers one medium and two small tiles.

Hope that helps.

[petriknl 15]

The metro system of the city of Atreuxbourg (more info in my CJ) .. do you think is logical? Gare means station, they are all end stations so the metro is very important to travel between the stations. Also Les Halles and Place d' Opera have an el-rail station with the line going to two suburban cities with over 150.000 people living in them.

[Benedict 3,119]

Looks great, petriknl. Would it be more logical if the red line (2) ran all the way to Gare du Sud? Or maybe it should run to Gare du Nord instead...

Any plans to show a map of your el line?

And as you already know I love your CJ, particularly the region views.

[petriknl 15]

Thanks for your comments Benedict. The blue and red lines are the first two metro lines, there purpose whas to connect the main railstations who are not connected by rail. Thats why the blue line runs north-south and the red line east-west going to the Place d' Opera where you can switch to the RER lignes to the East. Maybe a updated map is better, I added the two RER Lines, Ligne A going to Ste Anne and La Ritieux and Ligne B towards Ste Marie du Ginon, and with the SNCF logo the railway station are now better visible.

[Benedict 3,119]

Ah, that makes much more sense now. And thanks for the updated map, that's great!

[xena99 12]

Ok well I'm still getting confused on how to upload pictures. Haven't been here in awhile...so lets try this again shall we??

[catarina280 0]

Hello! this is my first post in Simtropolis foruns, and my first transportation map. It's not a great map, but i like it.

[mentarman 14]

Looks great to me. I'd like to see a bigger version with more detail and station names though.

[_MostlyHarmless 17]

Great maps everyone, all of the great creations keep amazing me.

[arimou0 0]

Las chingadas! LOL I gotta love that neighbourhood

[CWLGAMER01 39]

As seen in my CJ - Reedyton: