Here's a 512x256 scenario of Helsinki, which is the capital of Finland. The are contains the city centre of Helsinki as well as other urban areas. Southern half of the nearby town Espoo is also included (That's where I live
). The area is roughly 25-40 kilometers wide (west-east) and 15-20 kilometers tall (south-north).The point of this scenario is that when it reaches the year 2000 or so, it would roughly look like it does nowadays. Most of the quarters (sections of the city) didn't even exist back then and those that did.. Well, let's say that their population might even be bigger in the scenario than it actually was. But, as in Finland most of the places transform from field to population centres is 5-10 years, I decided to include every modern place large enough to the scenario. I haven't played the map to the year 2000 yet, but it should end up looking the following: dense urban area near Kamppi and a few larger places all over the map with smaller places nearby, all divided with forest from the next population centre (if you don't cut the forests down). The population of the scenario is in the beginning ~56.000, and in reality it is now (in 2008) closing to 800.000 in the area if the scenario.
The industries are not in real places. I decided to create industries so that the final network would be similiar to that of in reality. This means that all the factories etc. are downtown and all forests, farms etc. are on the egdes of the map, from where the railway network continues on in reality.
I took the landscape from a "heightmap" (a GIMPed map) and the places and forests from roadmaps.
The scenario starts in 1952. During that year Finland paid the final war reparations to the Soviet Union (as the only country to fully pay war reparations) and the country could begin to make things for themselves!
The scenario in a nutshell:
It fun to mimic the transport network of reality!
And please, all feedback is welcome.
All the best
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