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Simutrans Maps website

As maintainer of the Simutrans Maps website (http://maps.simutrans.com), I have been nosing around and unearthed some maps that were on the (very) old Simutrans Maps website (February 2007 and earlier). I have added them to the website.

I have three problems left.

1) I don't know the author of one of the series of British Isles maps (the other series is by Kierongreen)
2) I don't know the author of the non-flat Italian maps (flat ones are by Marco Bernardini)
3) I have got a map called Jorik, but I haven't got a clue in which country this is. I have included a picture.

If someone has information about these maps, please inform me.
Bob Marley: No woman, no cry

Programmer: No user, no bugs


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Reply #1 –
To answer my first 2 questions ;): they were both made by Joker (of course, who else?) as research in the old archives revealed.

Which leaves question 3...
Bob Marley: No woman, no cry

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I have had a go at making two maps and they work!!! One is of Northern England, and the other is of Sodor (land of Thomas the Tank Engine) including the Isle of Man and the west coast of England. They are both playable.

Who do I contact to get them onto the Simutrans Map site?
 

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Combuijs  ;)  :D

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Quote
Combuijs

Indeed...

Edit 13-03-2009: Both maps have been added to the website today. You will find the Northern England map in the European section  :o and the Sodor map in the fantasy section.
Bob Marley: No woman, no cry

Programmer: No user, no bugs


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Reply #5 –
Today I've added a Smiley fantasy map made by Russell Evans. You can find it in the fantasy map section.
Bob Marley: No woman, no cry

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With the help of a dark, dusty and forgotten place in the computer of VS I have uploaded 7 new North American maps including Tennessee, North America, Bay Area, Dallas, Lynchburg, Salt Lake City and Sunriver Mountain. The Tennessee map was made by Patrick N. but the authors of all the other maps remain unknown. Can anyone shine a light on their origin? VS and I think it might be Joker's, and we've contacted him, without an answer yet.

Further there was a map of an unknown area, very likely in North America. Does anyone know which part this is? I've made two pictures with different water levels, most likely the last one is correct, or maybe it is something in between.
Bob Marley: No woman, no cry

Programmer: No user, no bugs


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Good Day all :)

As far I can remember, I did not produce any of those maps. I will look trhought my archieves and see if I can find out who did.


Cheers Joker

Add: Well after searching through what I have here...I dont have any of those at all. On the other hand lol I have found some other maps I had totally forgot I was working on ages ago. like a map of New York and one of Austria with surrounding area. Maybe I should finsh them :)

Sorry I couldnt help more with this mystery.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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Hmm, well spotted TurfIt, thank you. Highlander? But this is not a part of Scotland, is it?
Bob Marley: No woman, no cry

Programmer: No user, no bugs


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Quote from: Combuijs – on
I have uploaded 7 new North American maps including Tennessee, North America, Bay Area, Dallas, Lynchburg, Salt Lake City and Sunriver Mountain.

News from Simutrans Maps are most welcome. It deserves a news at Simutrans Blog. :)

Combuijs, would you like to have an editor blog account? So, you'll be able to post news about Simutrans Maps to the public.

It's not hard to deal with a blog interface which works like a forum post form.

(yes! yes! yes! yes! ;D )

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Well, something like a forum post I seem to be able to handle  :D , so yes please.
Bob Marley: No woman, no cry

Programmer: No user, no bugs


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Reply #12 –
Blog's entry is on the way.. ;)

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Reply #14 –
The map in question is now available as Sindor's map in the fantasy maps category. Further I've added the beautiful Russia map by AEO from topic http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=5599.0 in the European maps category (though it could arguably go in the Asian section).

As a bonus I am going to try to write my first Simutrans blog about this. Wish me luck...

Edit: blog done, comments are welcome!
Bob Marley: No woman, no cry

Programmer: No user, no bugs


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I created a map that uses all levels possible through custom maps, and I noticed that there needs to be a minor change to the tutorial.

43 is water level -10, this is the lowest ground level possible.
213 - missing from tutorial, but this is a real level, comes after 203
224 - should be 223 after adding 213
234 - should be 233 after adding 223

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Avoid maps with a heights>16 as you are not allowed to build there.

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Quote from: prissi – on
Avoid maps with a heights>16 as you are not allowed to build there.
I've only gotten that with 'hilly' enabled on random maps.
Actually, you can still use the slope tool for another 4 levels on top of a 255 section of the map, so it seems that it's not more than +15, but you can start off at -10, and that gives 20 levels of land and 4 levels of ocean to work with for custom maps.

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Reply #21 –
ahh, okay, thanks. :)

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Reply #22 –
Thank you, AEO, I've incorporated your remarks in the tutorial!
Bob Marley: No woman, no cry

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