Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a cajun taste!

[Slowhand 0]

Great work! Your transportation views look amazing.

[Allybabba 0]

tjd leave him a lon u try catching the smallest things u may want to check ur cj out yourself for any mistakes u've made!

sorry for the misspellings i was mad! and i dont want to fix it..

 

lovely city journal u have here i like the road designs they are eye pleaseing just like tjd said! good job! me liking i may add u in!

 

WELCOME TO PAGE 9!

[ACEfanatic 7]

Date: 11/27/2005 1:54:17 PM Author: Allybabba

tjd leave him a lon u try catching the smallest things u may want to check ur cj out yourself for any mistakes u've made!

sorry for the misspellings i was mad! and i dont want to fix it..

lovely city journal u have here i like the road designs they are eye pleaseing just like tjd said! good job! me liking i may add u in!

WELCOME TO PAGE 9!

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Dude... chill out.  TJD thought Mr. Beer was making a completely accurate recreation, when it's really just a represention.  Simple misunderstanding.  Jeez...

Anyway, been a long time since I last posted here.  Lookin' good!

-ACE

[Mr. Beer 12]

PAGE NINE

 

 

RESPONSES

 

 

Thanks to all for your comments! It's a pleasure... I know, a lot of these suburbs looks like the other one, but...it's sprawling...

 

A lot of people post a commentary, it's a little difficult for me to make a personnal answer, why the most of them are on page 8...

 

I tried to explain to TJD my concept, but with my limited vocabulary and my low level in english, It's probably a little bit confuse...

 

I've tried to make the same region view that TJD do on his CJ... but I don't know how

If somebody has an idea

 

Thanks to all!

Mr. Beer

[JohnB 66]

Awesome city. I love your highway and road system. Its quite complex. The city is very realistic as well. Great Job.

[PhilsCafe 8]

I think that explanation was quite clear.

I don't know how TheJerseyDevil did that, but there is a program called Region Census with which you can take pictures from your whole region, but also see the city's stats without starting the game...

- Phil

[Mr. Beer 12]

UPDATE

 

Thanks PhilsCafe! But TJD answered me and I've just downloaded it...here are also the full images of my region!

 

 

 

 

[Mr. Beer 12]

UPDATE

 

DENHAM SPRING, LA

 

 

Denham Spring is located on the east part of the Baton Rouge metro area. It's a quiet city, with a logistic industry and large shopping mart.

The Vallaire parkway goes thru this 25'000 people town.

 

 

The core, with, in black teinted steel frame, the Louisiana Saving Bank Buildind and in red brick, the Denham-Montabert building (1942), the two tallest building.

 

 

By night... The I-12 runs next the town...

 

 

Outside, along Vallaire parkway, the Vallaire Outlet mall...

 

 

 

BATON ROUGE, LA

 

 

This is an updated picture of the downtown...(Miss. flow from the left to the right).

A new skyscraper was build this autumn, the 550 St-Charles Tower, next the Louisiana Art Museum.

Its a joint venture project with Farrell Investment, BankCorp Louisiana (major owner) and Chevron Retreat Fund...

The architects: Sabatel-L

[sloppet 3]

great work! the pics are interesting! I like the regional view a lot!

[ACEfanatic 7]

Wow....



-ACE

[Cjah 15]

Some of your best work yet!

I love the layouts and region pictures so far.The suburban areas are richly built up and the downtown are are nice.

 

[Mr. Beer 12]

RESPONSES

 

Thanks guy!

I've downloaded the latest Airport Pack expansion (a Beta version), so I'll try this and probably post new pics of my airport!

 

Stay tuned!

 

Mr. Beer

[sloppet 3]

that sounds great! I can't wait!

[oroen 0]

Amazing pictures as usual. I really like the view of I-12 running through the flat open lands by the industrial areas outside of Denham Spring.

[Mr. Beer 12]

UPDATE

 

Thanks sloppet and oroen! Here are the picture of the new airport tarmac:

 

 

 

 

 

ROAD MAP VIEW

 

 

I tried to design the major roads (orange) and freeway (blue) with paintbrush...it's a little bit little...

White dot are freeway's exit and interchange.

The yellow line materialize the Parishes's borders...

 

 

[PhilsCafe 8]

The new runways look great. Are they from the SimWings pack? Anyways, I love that transportation map . Great job.

I wonder if you have a larger version of that map. Maybe you could upload it to imgeshack (or whichever service you're using) and post the link or thumnail here, so that we could enjoy the large map as well.

However, keep up your fantastic work Mr. Beer.

- Phil

[Micah 16]

It's been a while since I've been here... but let me tell you that you have made great updates since I was last here... And your interstate photo is incredible!

[Mr. Beer 12]

RESPONSES

 

To PhilsCafe: Thanks! Yuk, I did a mistake: due to an error of file manipulation, I destroy the original (the only one I have is the Imageshack reduction, so I can't enlarge it, too bad resolution. I'll do an another this weekend.

For large pics, the problem come from Imageshack, with its maximum size of 1024 kB/pictures...I'll try...

 

And yes, the runways come from SimWing Pack...It's long to build when your knowledge about airport/plane regulation are around zero...but the result looks great!

 

To Micah: Thanks, dude!

[Nardo69 51]

Nice updates there that I missed ...

I like these browns housing with the parking lots! Good overall design.
I would like the airport and its great design that fits into it ssurroundings if i wasn't completely disliking them!

It is a pity that you lost the original of that street map - all that marvellous work ...

Bernhard

[Mr. Beer 12]

UPDATE

 

SATELLITE VIEW PHOTOSHOPED

 

 

I tried to make orthogonal view of my region, using AutoCAD, PDF factory and photoshop...

 

 

Here is a Rand McNally road map (did with AutoCAD)...just for fun... 

 

 

To Nardoo69: Thanks a lot for your comments!

[Shadow Assassin 336]

*jaw drops*

 

That's freakin' awesome. You gotta tell us how you did that in AutoCAD.

[____----____ 37]

Date: 12/9/2005 9:42:59 AM Author: Shadow_Assassin

*jaw drops*

That's freakin' awesome. You gotta tell us how you did that in AutoCAD.

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he said it all!

[PhilsCafe 8]

I don't know what to say Mr. Beer.

Fantastic work with the satellite view. Your region looks so real (I'm sure I've already told you that, but, well, it's true!). And the road map: awe - some!

Keep it up.

- Phil

[Mr. Beer 12]

UPDATE

 

SIEGEN PARK, LA AND VAQUIERE, LA

 

Now my area has 1.1 millions of inhabitants Most of the mahor suburbs are ready, exept Scotlandville...

Here is the pictures of two suburbs south of the Baton Rouge metro area:

 

 

SIEGEN PARK

 

a bedroom community on farmlands along the Airline hwy; open space, golf courses, shopping centers...

 

 

Warehouses...

 

 

 

Modern suburban homes (not functionnal, but eye-candy)

 

 

 

VAQUIERE

 

The same...south of Siegen Park

 

 

 

 

 

Poeple of Vaqui

[Nardo69 51]

Wow! what an effort! But definately worth the effort! I thought about something similar butmy wife already complains I am doing to muich computer by now ... (and in a way she is right ...)

Bernhard

[PhilsCafe 8]

Another impressive update Mr. Beer.

Really great job with that layout. I love the suburbs and the shopping malls...

Keep up your outstanding work and thanks a lot for your visit in Acorn Creek.

- Phil

[cityhawk 12]

I really like your use of highway interchanges and the blending on the region view---your highways, interstates, and other roads flow smoothly throughout the region, creating the best impression of a real-world satellite image. I love your suburban and industrial areas (your towns are ones that can do good in the looks department without skyscrapers). Anyway, keep up the good work.'); height=15 alt=Insert smilie src=https://community.simtropolis.com/assets/emoticons/1.gif width=15 border=0>

[TheJerseyDevil73 13]

Very impressive updates. I like the regional views. Also the flat view looks well. I found using that with real maps is a great way to show people the effort put into the region. A few questions though... 
Where did you get the map of the region?
What scale do you use? How did you come about it?
Is it only the main roads that are recreated accurately?
I'm curious because of how fast this has been made and how great this region looks. Like I have said before there is a very very small handfull of city journals I look at. And I find this one to resemble my own efforts the most. By looking at alot of your maps I now understand how some feel when looking at mine. Its great to see someone else do this level of work. At times I wish there where more CJ's like this yet at other times I like having just a few that can stand out to this level of recreation.

[Mr. Beer 12]

RESPONSES

 

Thanks to all for your participation in this City Journal (not the best in the presentation and aesthetic)

I came frome the Trixie Award 2005 and I saw just that I've got nominated! What a surprise!

So, I must now to be equal to the situation...

 

Here is a link to a giant picture of my area:   http://img473.imageshack.us/my.php?image=satelliteorthocopie8ot.jpg

Just copy and past to your address tool bar!

 

 

 

To Nardo69: Thank you Bernhard! Don't spend to much time on your computer!

 

To PhilsCafe: You're welcome! Thanks to you to visit my CJ too! I must to visit your more often!

 

To cityhawk: Thanks...but the difficulties with a north american style metropolitain area, suburbs are like each others...so it would become a little bit boring...(I'm not recrating Phoenix, AZ, so ...)

 

To TheJerseyDevil73: Congratulations for your nominations! Flat view are very usefull, so I discoverd some tools on Photoshop I've never used...

The map is from my own production, using an yahoo maps, paintbrush and photoshop for the greyscale.

So I measured approximately the width of the Mississippi at the level of the I-10 bridge and I've got ~ 1km, so I scalled my region in consequence, but some lakes are not very accurates...

Roads are scaled approximatively on the downtown area, but I did to refer on the game orthoganality.

It's fast (an entire afternoon = ~ 6 to 7 hours for each map and more for the downtown).

I put the roads, streets, etc. and after I zone, I put some rewards and the utilities and than I plop greens and at I start the simulation to the maximum, after 10 years, I stop, and I make some corrections (polpping herbs or house on undevelloped areas and some minor corrections) After that, the city is done, but if I found something to exhaust, I restart the city to make the improvement...

Your work is more impressive why you spend a lot of time with satellite view, recreating the exact replica, not only the layout of the transportation network, but houses, farms, warehouses etc. are so replicated as the same in the reality!

[Mr. Beer 12]

UPDATE

 

Here is a link for a large picture of my region: http://img473.imageshack.us/my.php?image=satelliteorthocopie8ot.jpg

 

 

EASTBOUND: AUBIN, LA

 

Wow, just four days until the holidays!

This weekend was terrible: bindge drinking, liters of beers (and tequila) and the next weekend will be anounced more terrible... 

 

Now, the south-eastern part of my region is done! Here is a colection of pictures from these various farm towns!

Aubin is a quiet extra-suburban community, surrounded by farms...

 

 

 

 

An homemade petrol station, thanks to Deadwoods!

 

 

Detailed view of a typical residential street...

 

 

Thanks a lot!

 

Mr. Beer