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JGR wrote:Here's a network map from my current game. Whilst I've not finished the game, it's probably not going to change too dramatically from this.
I've been working on this on and off for a while now so thought I ought to get round to posting it.

That's a very nice map design you've got there; simple yet elegant. How'd you make it?

JDCollie wrote:

JGR wrote:Here's a network map from my current game. Whilst I've not finished the game, it's probably not going to change too dramatically from this.
I've been working on this on and off for a while now so thought I ought to get round to posting it.

That's a very nice map design you've got there; simple yet elegant. How'd you make it?

Many thanks :3
I used MS Visio 2003.

JGR wrote: Many thanks :3
I used MS Visio 2003.

Huh, I've never heard of that until now. I'll have to check it out!

Here is a map I made yesterday for a long running game where I restricted myself to passenger transportation.

• map with station labels
• map without station labels
• the corresponding savegame
• topic on reddit

Here is a PNG rendering of the SVG:

What is that made with?

S-Transport wrote:What is that made with?

A text-editor and a lot of patience. I drew a sketch of the map with pencil and recreated that drawing as an SVG by manually specifying all the coordinates.

Here a little map over the passenger train services in one of my games. I used http://beno.org.uk/metromapcreator/# to make it

And i could not stop my self for posting Reading station.


Due to me building much. I done a new map.

That's a cool tool actually. Very nice. I will give this one a go for my next project

This is the map from a german Multiplayergame.




Ingamevideos from "Böblingen" and "Bad Brückenau" as big railnodes.

http://youtu.be/f4cIlZIuvOQ?list=UUVlJS ... qzBx-80D1Q

http://youtu.be/MLioXeo9krw?list=UUVlJS ... qzBx-80D1Q


Topic to this game (but in german)

http://www.tt-ms.de/forum/showthread.php?tid=6407

Network map from my current game

I used MS Visio for this one. It covers about one third of a 512x512 sized map, so there is still room for improvement and more lines

I made a map of my network using, as you recommended, Dia. I also made another one using the Metro Map creator. It's a British Isles scenario beginning in 1935, and the maps show my network in January 1944

The Irish wrote:That's a cool tool actually. Very nice. I will give this one a go for my next project

Its pretty nifty, although I found it gets a bit unwieldly when the map is larger/more complicated. I also ran into a problem exporting a whole high detail file, and thus had to stitch together a few lower detail files to create mine.

Chris wrote:

The Irish wrote:That's a cool tool actually. Very nice. I will give this one a go for my next project

Its pretty nifty, although I found it gets a bit unwieldly when the map is larger/more complicated. I also ran into a problem exporting a whole high detail file, and thus had to stitch together a few lower detail files to create mine.

Unless you've got multiple "Tring"s in the game, I suspect that map may be a little unrealistic...

Pingaware wrote:Unless you've got multiple "Tring"s in the game, I suspect that map may be a little unrealistic...

Haha good spot, I think the one on the black line should be Rotherham. There's also Hastings Piccadillu and winchesster...

A mashup of the Metro Map Creator (http://beno.org.uk/metromapcreator/#) and MS Paint (logo). Somehow, it looks quite good.

Sorry to bump this thread from the dead but I have a question for the cartographers of the OTTD community:

What's the best way to scale things? I'm trying to map out one of the major metropolitan areas in my current game but the mix of regional and intercity trains mixed in with trams has really confused me.

SNCF wrote:Sorry to bump this thread from the dead but I have a question for the cartographers of the OTTD community:

What's the best way to scale things? I'm trying to map out one of the major metropolitan areas in my current game but the mix of regional and intercity trains mixed in with trams has really confused me.

It's probably best not to try to make your map "to scale", it generally makes more sense to try to make it topologically representative. Don't be afraid to drastically expand complex areas to give you more room to make things look neat and uncluttered.
Also, you could use different colour or thickness of line to indicate local services/trams, and you could use a smaller font for the names of local tram stops.

JGR wrote:

SNCF wrote:Sorry to bump this thread from the dead but I have a question for the cartographers of the OTTD community:

What's the best way to scale things? I'm trying to map out one of the major metropolitan areas in my current game but the mix of regional and intercity trains mixed in with trams has really confused me.

It's probably best not to try to make your map "to scale", it generally makes more sense to try to make it topologically representative. Don't be afraid to drastically expand complex areas to give you more room to make things look neat and uncluttered.
Also, you could use different colour or thickness of line to indicate local services/trams, and you could use a smaller font for the names of local tram stops.

Thanks for the tips!

Okay, so, here is my a network map from my most recent game. It's a German Game, and this is the S-Bahn Network for the City of Northeim. The Map itself is in a combination of both German and English. (Please excuse the German, I'm not sure as to how good it is, I used Google Translate! )

Very nice! And the German sentences correctly: „Alle grauen Linien und Bahnhöfe dienen nur dem Regional- und Intercity-Verkehr der Deutschen Bahn“ and „ICE-Züge zurzeit an diesem Bahnhof ausgesetzt“. „Bauarbeiten im Gange“ is correct German, but „im Bau“ would normally be used, I think.