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Help Me Grid & CJ my town: Boulder, CO
adventurerneil posted a topic in SimCity 4 General Discussion
Hey Simtropolis! I'm a pretty new player / Simtrop lurker, and was wondering if I could solicit the community's collective wisdom on resources to do a few things: 1) Help me to put a grid on my town of Boulder, Colorado using Google Maps + whatever grid-making software. I made a large-tile-sized square (4.09 km on each side) on Google Maps using ScribbleMaps: https://www.scribblemaps.com/maps/view/Central_Boulder/BoulderSC4, and now I suppose I need to draw a grid on it (256X256 right?). I'm not sure what the best way to do that is. I can eyeball it, of course, but was hoping to get more detail in case I feel the need to micromanage 65,536 individual tiles (like ya do). (edit to add: I'd also be willing to look at slicing the gmap into 128X128 or even 64X64 if it's significantly easier or if there's a cost differential) 2) Help me think about ways to re-create the University of Colorado, which is pretty large and triangular campus that'll sit in the bottom middle portion of the city tile. The standard Maxis Uni won't cut it, and while I could try to create some ad hoc triangular area that incorporates other educational facilities, I'm again hoping for something more robust and customized. 3) Help me find good ways to re-create the bike and pedestrian Boulder Creek path, which meanders its way East-West through most of the middle city and has lots of diagonal parts. Also - any suggestions on how to create a SHALLOW creek area (and other terraforming / landscape general ideas) would be appreciated. 4) And last but not least, help me conceptualize creating a City Journal for this, since I never have before! Any and all help appreciated, I'll keep you posted with what I come up with! Cheers, Neil
