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Lausanne - Sion

From the capital city of the canton of Vaud to the capital city of the canton of Valais. From Lausanne along the shore of Lake Geneva, through the towns of the Vaud Riviera and the Rhone Valley up to Sion.

One of the most beautiful regions in the world, mapped at a scale of 1:2 based on airborne laserscan data with a vertical resolution of 0.1 metres and a horizontal resolution of 10 metres.

The railway lines running in reality are imprinted on the terrain.

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Scale: 1:2
Towns: 34
Map size: megalomaniac
Aspect ratio: 2:1
Start year: 1850
Level: difficult

Abondance, Aigle, Ardon, Blonay, Champéry, Évian-les-Bains, Forel, Fully, Lausanne, Le Châble, Les Diablerets, Leysin, Martigny, Monthey, Montpreveyres, Montreux, Nendaz, Ollon, Orsières, Palézieux, Port-Valais, Puidoux, Riddes, Saint-Maurice, Salvan, Sembrancher, Sion, Thonon-les-Bain, Troubois, Val-d'Illiez, Verbier, Vevey, Villars-sur-Ollon, Villeneuve.

The railway lines that exist in reality are imprinted on the map as fine, narrow terrain elevations. These lines also include various narrow-gauge railways leading from towns in the valley to villages on the mountains. Using these imprinted "guidelines", the model builder can easily recreate all railway lines at the places where they exist in reality - as soon as he has earned the necessary capital. If he does not want to do this, he can easily level the terrain elevations.

The map contains the main country roads between the cities which are depicted. The route of the country roads corresponds to the route in reality (with very few exceptions).

With a few exceptions, the industries included are mapped at locations where comparable industries exist or once existed in reality. However, in order to fully cover the needs of all cities later on, an industry mod will be needed that increases the production quantities of the existing industries.

The map extract is chosen so that the largest cities (Lausanne, Sion, Martigny and Thonon-les-Bains) are located in the corner regions of the map and cannot usually be reached via straight connections to each other. This results in numerous long driving distances that have to be covered when supplying these cities.

The Rhone was depicted slightly wider than in reality, so that it is navigable.

The digital elevation model, a section of which was used to create the heightmap, is from Sonny: https://sonny.4lima.de/. For the underlying licence, see the following excerpt, which is taken from a readme file of the height model:
"This Terrain Model is OPEN, FREE and WITHOUT CHARGE. But it is licensed using the following LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0),
look at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en"

The position of the cities, railway lines, roads, rivers and lakes was reproduced on the basis of OpenStreetMap data (©OpenStreetMap contributors). For the underlying licence see https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright/en.
"OpenStreetMap® is open data, licensed under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) (see: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/) by the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) (see: https://osmfoundation.org/)."
(https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright/en)

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  https://www.transportfever.net/filebase/entry/5942-natural-environment-professional-2/
  select the latest version, as of March 11, 2023 this was the option:
  "NEP² v2.2 für die TpF2 Build 35230 oder höher (aktuell Version)"
  (if an older version of this mod is already installed, it must be uninstalled before. For the necessary steps see: https://www.transportfever.net/filebase/entry/5942-natural-environment-professional-2/)
  Unzip the downloaded file
  (As of March 11, this file is: "unixroot_natural_environment_pro_tpf2_stable_2.7z")
  Copy the folder "unixroot_natural_environment_pro_tpf2_2", which is located under the extracted files, to the following directory:
  "\Steam\userdata\<your-user-id>\1066780\local\mods\"
  
• Start a free game in Transport Fever 2
  
• Select the option "Play Map"
  
• Select this map
  
• Click on "Select options"
  
• In the "Mods" tab, DESELECT the mod "Natural Environment Professional"
  
• In the "Mods" tab, select the mod "Natural Environment Professional 2.2"
  
• In the "Mods" tab, set up the following load order:
  1) Alpine Climate 900m
  2) Natural Environment Professional 2.2
  3) Water textures
  
• In the "Advanced Settings" tab, select "ALPINE-900M" as the climate.
  
• Click on "OK"
  
• Click on "Start"
  
• Change HUD Icon filters as you like, on this see point 1 on https://www.transportfever2.com/wiki/doku.php?id=gamemanual:userinterface#hud_icon_filter

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The videos of the map are from:
Hans Dampf (https://www.youtube.com/@HansDampfYT/featured)
train gamer (https://www.youtube.com/@TrainGamerYT)
TrainLéo (https://www.youtube.com/@trainleo_)
OX-Gaming zockt (https://www.youtube.com/@OX-Gamingzockt)
maettu (https://www.youtube.com/@mattusideen7292/videos)
Maurbell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJTsfE4UpZs)

Maurbell also published a short review of the map: https://transportfever2italianfans.forumfree.it/?t=79522686