Philadelphia, PA

[nottheboss 1]

I don't get how people put up with non-stop looking at maps and pictures to recreate real cities This is a good one though

[Tolsome 0]

that's boring, no one want to see a map with some streets an nothing else. Please, create first the city or some pieces of the city and than show as it us!

[masssc4 3]

Originally posted by: Tolsome that's boring, no one want to see a map with some streets an nothing else. Please, create first the city or some pieces of the city and than show as it us!quote>

 

thats a little harsh although true

[Hester 700]

It's your CJ. I like whatever you do.

[pickled_pig 7]

Definitely. I lived in the Philly area (Norristown, to be specific) the first 5 years of my life. I'm real impressed with the detail you have put into this.

-aaron

[MPTC 0]

i like it

[Hester 700]

Rats..I was hoping you would have updated. Miss seeing your CJ. Maybe next time.

[Droftrah 2]

Very good.

You must have the patience of a saint because that looks like an awful lot of work.

I mean "Above and beyond the call"....

[E_Skurka 0]

Hi, 

Great Job I live a bock from Philly Let me know if I can help you out.

[jacqulina 162]

wonderfull work my friend great maps

[Trainmaster423 0]

Keep it up man. Can't wait till your next update.

[penguin007 27]

This looks great the highway junction looks very acurate

Will

[Cam790 0]

HEYYY: I like the idea; Philadelphia is my hometown; my city; i am looking to BAT the Comcast Center this week and I just happenned to see your journal. Ill be glad to help you with any questions about the city, I know it front and back, inside and out. Tell me if your going through with creating the buildings, their location, etc. Please keep in touch with im totally interested in your project here GREAT START...

[Ambleboy22 1]

That 'gravel pit' there may be the crash site of United 93.

Although I could be wrong.

[KingTitan 6]

I think it's an incredible endeavor....I'm very interested to see how the buildings play out in this CJ...Great Stuff friend.

[RedImperator 16]

Originally posted by: Ambleboy22 That 'gravel pit' there may be the crash site of United 93.

Although I could be wrong.quote>

You are.  Shanksville is several hundred miles west of Philadelphia, and anyway, United 93 didn't blast a deep, steep-sided crater into the ground.  Just a shallow gouge.  Even in a full power vertical dive (which United 93 wasn't in), a plane doesn't have all that much kinetic energy, compared to how much energy it takes to move dirt--they're mostly aluminum and air.

There ARE actual gravel pits and quarries in the area.  I can't tell where the one shown in the CJ is without seeing it in a wider context, but there are plenty of uses for the stone that underlies Montgomery County.

[nottheboss 1]

has everybody just abandoned this CJ

[Joe887 0]

I'm Back!

Don't worry, I never gave up on this project and I should have enough free time to post regularly now.

Because I am completely crazy, I have started over from scratch.  (It's not like that much was completed anyway.

Here are a few teasers.

What's going on here???

I haven't even rendered the terrain yet.

What's with all these dots?

[anarchy0029 2]

Man, from the mapping of the city of Philadelphia. This has got to be a tough city to design. But I really love the work you did.

[jacqulina 162]

looking forward to more my friend the map looks cool

[Pablo_SIMMANIAK 4]

Hey, its gonna to be very nice , and realistic Cj!

[hijodecordoba 74]

I'm glad your back and really curious about your work.

[Joe887 0]

Rendering Complete!

The region is absurdly huge at 9x9 large city tiles.  That's 81 large cities or 1358 square kilometers.  I don't know if I will (or can) develop the whole thing.

Here is the region view directly after redering.  You can see all these little bumps.  The secret is I have placed the location of all main roads on the terrain map!

Here is a closeup.  I get these bumps by placing single pixel dots on the image to be imported.

Here is the downtown area.  You can see the outline of the streets.

I have also uploaded the map for anyone who wants to play with it.  (Requires 250m plugin)

http://ifile.it/ev7h9dt

This is a bz2 archive.  If you don't know how to open it in Windows, use 7-zip http://www.7-zip.org/

PS.  I'm running the game under linux now and the terrain rendering was at least four times faster!  100% CPU usage the rest of the time though.

[JackStraw 19]

Originally posted by: Tolsome that's boring, no one want to see a map with some streets an nothing else. Please, create first the city or some pieces of the city and than show as it us!quote>

 


Deffinetly not boring... When you do a re-creation, you have to lay the network first...  Believe me, it is more intense doing the network first, rather than just going with the flow on a fictional city.. I am also currently woking on a re-creation of Philly and I laid out most of the network before laying my first zone.  I am waiting until I have at least one city tile 80% done before starting the cj though... By the way this looks really good,  you are strictly keeping to the map.... I personally like to add a little artistic license myself

[Schulmanator 5,793]

Cool! That's gonna be huge! I am eager to see how it looks when you start building.

[JackStraw 19]

Originally posted by: Ambleboy22 That 'gravel pit' there may be the crash site of United 93.

Although I could be wrong.quote>

 

Dude, totally-totally wrong.... United 93 crashed about 300 miles west of Philly....

[tjh876 31]

Yeah. I think its near or in the same town of the Quecreek mine (which flooded) and all that stuff about the 9 miners. Happened about 7 years ago. Just so you know, if you pay attention to the national news.

[jasonb2373 0]

Yes, they are both fairly close to each other.  I live only about 20-30 minutes from both sites. 

[jacqulina 162]

wonderfull map my friend its huge cant wait to see more