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St. John's, NL

Welcome!

Let's start by saying I am not done with this map as there are some bits I am not happy with but I wanted to share get some feedback and play it myself.

This is the St, John's area located in Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada.

Some fun facts!
- Newfoundland and Labrador has an area of 405,720 square kilometres. It is more than three times the total area of the Maritime Provinces (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island) and would rank fourth in size behind Alaska, Texas, and California if it were one of the United States. - NFLD Website

- Signal Hill was the site of St. John’s harbour defences from the 17th century to the Second World War and where Guglielmo Marconi received the world’s first transatlantic wireless signal in 1901. - Parks Canada

- Cape Spear is a headland located on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland near St. John's in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. At a longitude of 52°37' W, it is the easternmost point in Canada and North America, excluding Greenland - Wiki

Among many more I am sure. St, John's is also my current hometown for the last 3-4 years!

This is a vanilla map. I did use some mods while making this like move it and network multi-tool but had to disable part way through due to crashing and various other issues.

I wanted to give map making a try and see how it goes. I think it turned out decent it took about 4-6 hours. Most of the work was done trying to make the coast and harbour look decent. I also spent quite a bit of time trying to match the highway to real life with some of the weird interchanges we have here lol. I took some liberties as I was unsure about scale this is something I want to come back to. I know each sqaure is 2x2 but still it hurts my brain lol. I took a height map from this excellent tool https://heightmap.skydark.pl

Most of the rest of the landmass was left just the way the height map had it. Most of the landscaping was done for the interchange area's and the lake.

I was not particularly happy with the ocean depth but I was not sure how to change it without messing up the whole rest of the height map. I put in Windsor Lake which is one of the bigger lakes in the area I chose. There are countless small ones but not sure how that would turn out (again due to scale) so I will probably do some testing and see but for this release I thought the big lake turned out decent.

With the vanilla tree limit I was not able get the tree density I would have liked but I wanted to keep this vanilla so anyone could give it a go. I fully intend to do a Mass Transit/Tree Anarchy version. I am also not happy with the small "pond" in the starter square that it said I needed to publish but it is what is haha. I used one steam workshop interchange but I believe it uses vanilla roads so it SHOULD be fine (Timboh's B-Trumpet Interchange).

Anyway I had a blast making this and I intend to work on a version that is not vanilla SoonTM as there are some weird issues with a few of the interchanges that I tried to sort out so there might be a bit of jagginess if you will. I am going to build a city now and I am sure I will find lots I want to fix.

I used the default temperate theme while making this with no lut's so I have no idea how this will look without the defaults. When I do my modded version I think I may do Boreal.

However for the time being I am happy with it and I hope if you do give it a try you will enjoy it as well. Be sure to let me know of anything you think might improve the map I would very much appreciate the feedback.

Much Love!