A Map of Portugal
- silentchickpeas
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A Map of Portugal
I attached the map, hope the upload works. I'm not familiar with the OpenTTD forums (and not an experienced player in OpenTTD).
Details:
- The map starts in 1975, the year after the dictatorship collapsed.
- It includes continental Portugal, the Azores archipelago, the Madeira Archipelago, and some spanish territories, all the way from Ferrol to Cádiz. It also includes a slice of Cornwall (UK), Britanny (France) and Casablanca (Morocco), mostly for boat fun.
- Major rivers included (Tejo, Douro, Sado, Guadiana, Minho, Lima, Cávado, Ave, Mondego), some smaller ones too.
- Biggest cities included, lots of towns and smaller villages, I couldn't place them all, but I tried populating the landscape in a balanced way, so that the urban areas of Lisbon and Porto are much more populated than Alentejo and the Trás-os-Montes region, for example. The map holds almost 2 million people. I tried to portray the north with many small towns all over the place, and the south as more scattered cities, a conventional way to describe the country.
- There were SOME attempts at placing city bridges in a realistic fashion. I didn't include the Vasco da Gama bridge in Lisbon because it's so big that I thought it would be best to leave it to the player, maybe one can sort a more efficient design.
- About 90% of industry was randomly placed. I chose randomly placed because I was afraid to make the map unplayable somehow.
- Most geographical features of interest are labelled (rivers, islands, mountains).
- Realistically placed lighthouses (surprisingly, Portugal has many, I hope I included all of them).
- A tree wall around Portugal tries to vaguely represent the frontier with Spain. Heavily forested zones tend to represent natural reserves, swamps, woods.
See some pictures here:
This took a while. I used a heightmap, then smoothed it ingame. I couldn't find a good heightmap of Azores and Madeira islands, so I had to draw them manually. In general, I went about placing cities while looking at google maps on my phone, so it's not perfect, but I tried hard. Inland cities were hardest, but everything by the coast should be correct. If I felt like a zone was empty, I would just zoom in and find a town name to fill that void. So you might see some real life village with 5 people that is represented. I've been working on this since the pandemic broke here about four months ago, it was both tedious and fun.
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Re: A Map of Portugal
Hi, this is a great job!
I've started some time ago a map of Portugal, but really is a boring work... Fantastic you made it!
I will try, usually I play with rail systems, and I will send some feedback.
Once again, thanks (obrigado!)
I've started some time ago a map of Portugal, but really is a boring work... Fantastic you made it!
I will try, usually I play with rail systems, and I will send some feedback.
Once again, thanks (obrigado!)
Re: A Map of Portugal
Looks gorgeous!
I will download it.
I have tried to do a more realistic version of Brazil but it's really hard to focus and finish because it's a lot of work.
Thanks for this!
I will download it.
I have tried to do a more realistic version of Brazil but it's really hard to focus and finish because it's a lot of work.
Thanks for this!
Re: A Map of Portugal
excelent, ive been playing it without well placed towns... now, ill do it again but correctly
és grande! obrigado pa!
és grande! obrigado pa!
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Re: A Map of Portugal
Este mapa é compatível com versão mobile?
- JohnFranklin523
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Re: A Map of Portugal
Please use English in public posts and replies. You can use any language in private messages as long as the other person understand you, but you should make your public post understandable for everyone on this internationalised forum.
Google Translation:
Is this map compatible with the mobile version?
The answer should be YES as long as your device is up to date. It was made in vanilla, but with a relatively large size (2048*4096), while my "old" iPhone 8 Plus could not load anything larger than 2048*2048...
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