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Hamiltron - City of the Future - v2

Hamilton / Kirikiriroa, New Zealand aka Hamiltron - City of the Future, or simply The Tron.

The city is located in the heart of the beautiful Waikato Region in New Zealand, the iconic scenery of The Shire in Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. The Waikato River runs through to the city and several small lakes are within the city boundaries.

Hamilton does not have the best reputation in New Zealand - the city's nickname 'City of the Future' was intended to be somewhat ironic but many Hamiltonians have embraced it. If you don't like Hamilton, here's a chance to build it right! If you like Hamilton, here's a chance to make it even better!

This map has been created with heightmap data and a fair amount of handdrawn detail. The map is designed for a large city with not a lot of primary industry within the city limits. Hamilton's businesses tend to be focused on education and research, service industry and general commercial / offices. I have included a little bit of ore on the map but there is no oil drilling in Waikato.

This is my first attempt at making a map for Cities Skylines. I have not built a city on the map yet but I will test it out shortly. Please leave feedback and suggestions for improvements. Some of the highways are a bit messy but I will modify the map with tweaks and improvements over the next few weeks.


Notes:
- This map has been designed to be played with all 25 tiles because most of the natural resources are on the edge in the rural hinterland. I highly recommend downloading a mod to unlock all tiles (and one to boost your cash a bit so you can afford to unlock all of the tiles at the beginning).
- The map should be 1:1 scale unless I screwed something up with the heightmap import.
- New Zealanders drive on the left side of the road! Remember to click 'traffic on left hand side' when you start a new game.
- Waikato Region in New Zealand has very fertile soil. I have mainly included fertile soil in the map around the areas of the city that still have farmland in real life. Most of the farmland falls outside the city limits but anyone can edit the map if they want to make a small city and have lots of agricultural land surrounding it.
- No sea connection! You won't be seeing any cruise ships on this river. There is a rail connection but New Zealand is heavily reliant on trucks for getting good around the city.
- The game does not have trees that look like New Zealand bush, so I have just used standard European trees around the map and in the gully network.
- The highway routes are based on the proposed Waikato Expressway Hamilton section, sections of the current State Highway One route, and the proposed Southern Links connection. The highway through the centre of the map roughly follows the cross city connector roads - Mill Street, Boundary Road, Fifth Avenue.
- The train tracks follow the position of the Main Trunk Line of New Zealand, as well as the Eastern Trunk Line that current runs under the city centre.
- For anyone familiar with Hamilton's history, part of a hill was removed in the central city in the early 1930s. I added the hill roughly in its original form. It is now up to you whether the hill stays or goes!
- Because I put the real-life central city in the middle of the map, some of the city's northern surburbs fall outside of the 25 tile grid.