Show us your Maps!

[SeanSC4]

That is an awesome map Swordmaster. It must have taken you quite awhile to get everything in place.

[Swordmaster]

That is an impressive map. And it is very well designed and structured. I am amazed at how much information you packed into it. It must have been difficult to arrange and group all the icons and texts so that they do not overlap.

The only issue I see is where when two mainlaines merge only one color continues. In the top right corner just east of Baldwin for example:
The blue line merges with the black line. On first glance it looks like the blue line would terminate there. But when checking the symbols on the following stations I can see that the "R" train actually continues. But on other parts of the map you use multiple lines.

It is not a big problem but I was a bit irritated by it.

Thanks, sir. Very thoughtful comment there! The three colors represent three different rail companies owning the track, but they have trackage rights over most of each other's lines, too. So the commuter trains like the one you mentioned continue over the other company's lines. There's some different construction standards depending on the company. The red lines, for instance, are freight lines with minimal slopes. The blue lines, owned by the commuter railway, has much steeper slopes.

Cheers,
Willy

[noahclem]

That's an amazing map Willy     I hope someday I'll create something like that. I'd love to see more of your rails 

[RickD]

Thanks, sir. Very thoughtful comment there! The three colors represent three different rail companies owning the track, but they have trackage rights over most of each other's lines, too. So the commuter trains like the one you mentioned continue over the other company's lines. There's some different construction standards depending on the company. The red lines, for instance, are freight lines with minimal slopes. The blue lines, owned by the commuter railway, has much steeper slopes.

Cheers,
Willy

Ah, I see. This totally makes sense from an organizational point of view. I was reading the map from a passenger point of view. As a rider on the train I do not care who owns the track. I just want to see where my train goes. So this is just two different approaches to organizing the map.

[phoenix7]

This monstrosity is a planning map for my own use, not a map to be used by sims, but I decided to put it up. Light blue is water, brown is hilly areas, light green is parks, although the straight light green lines mark city tile borders. Darker blue is commercial, darker green is residential, and dark gold/brown is industrial. Orange is, as you can probably tell, freeway, yellow is main arterals, and black is all other streets.

[kj3400]

Over the years of Paradise having a cj, I've drawn a lot of maps, trying to plan the capital. Recently I decided to see what these routes would look all together, so I made this. The black dotted lines are tile boundaries, for an idea of the scale of the plans.
Full size:
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/4376/proposedfreeways.png

[RickD]

The first proposal for the future highway system in my region "Empire Bay":



SH = Simnation Highway
ER = Empire Route
dotted lines = ferry connection

[kbieniu7]

Regional road planning... nice 
But do all roads go underwater? Do those dashed lines show tunnels?

[mave94]

Those dashed lines mean a ferry connection.
Nice map, Rick!

[kbieniu7]

Whack!... I see now  Quite a lot of them.

[RickD]

Whack!... I see now  Quite a lot of them.

Yep, it is inspired by trip through Norway last year. There are also a lot of ferry connections.
They will get upgraded to bridges or tunnels when the region grows.

[josh6]

Great maps guys 
@Swordmaster: That map looked like it took a very long time to create. Great job

Hes about a fourth of my city's full subway system. A larger map is coming later and this part of my city has the highest concentration of Subways.

[netmod]

That subway system is amazing Josh.


Here is a map of my American CJ region, Ignore the bird part, it's an inside joke

[wallasey]

Hoping this comes out ok!

Nothing of what you see has been built yet...

[RickD]

Very nice  and clean map. I like the separate map for the city centre.

[noahclem]

Great map wallasey    Supermetro....does that mean something other than Featherstall's usual buses? I look forward to seeing how the area develops 

[wallasey]

Thanks both!

I prefer to try and keep public transport maps as clean as possible, if only to make a network look simple to navigate around if one is unfamiliar with the system in place!

Rick, I almost added a panel advising which station is best for getting to central attractions like museums, art galleries and shopping centres, following the Sheffield principle on its maps.

Noahclem, thanks mate! I was aiming to be ingenuitive by merging the name of the tram systems in Birmingham and Manchester (Metro / Metrolink) with that of Sheffield (Supertram)...I hope it works!

As far as a bus system is concerned, I may look into replicating this once everything PC wise is back to normal! Having a few technical issues at the moment which means I can't build anything!

I'll keep you posted!

[josh6]

wallasey: Great map!

Heres another map in my city. This system is smaller than ATTA.

This map is inspired by alittle bit of the PATCO and the PATH

[Swordmaster]

Nice maps everyone.

Josh, are you a professional? Those maps are looking too good. 


Cheers
Willy

[sim_link]

Josh6: Very professional and clean looking!



Here's one from me: It's my MD region's highway expansion plan, referred to as HDHIP.



Construction has begun on Hwy. 82 - experimenting with FARHW.