there isn't the worth valley railway near keighley

Dewsbury is missing too [between Batley and Ravensthorpe [a major town for the area].
Also can you put in Nafferton in between Driffield and Bridlington [north of Hull and Beverley]. Thanks.

Excellent map since Iive within its reaches. Note: Ashton-Under-Lyme, near manchester and Ardwick is actually Ashton-Under-Lyne, easy to mistake from maps at distance. Also between Stalybridge and Marsden is a town called Mossley. Thanks.

Nice map. One tiny point, the town just north of Morecambe is Carnforth, not Camforth, which looks the same in some fonts. (r n not m)

Hi Mad Hatter. Just to let you know, you have missed out a mid-major town in the NW namely Bolton. Should ne NW of Kearsley and E of Horwich Parkway. Also Wigan is called Wigan and the 'Wallgate' is a station there: Wigan Wallgate [and Wigan Northwestern]. Thanks.

Top stuff, thanks :)

Hi Wagstaff
There you go additional towns added for you

@Mad Hatter:
Probably Louth, Horncastle, Alford, Woodhall Spa, Wragby and Bardney would be my suggestions. They're all spaced nicely apart and won't cause any impromptu population explosions.

@ricblack49: Yes, I know all of this and it's kinda sad. I live in an old station on the East Lincs main line. Admittedly there's very little here apart from farms, as you say, but if we'd kept the East Lincs line it'd have massively boosted Louth and Alford's potential in the modern era. As is is both are kind of isolated now.

Wagstaff - For interest: Mr Beeching decided East Lincolnshire didn't need railways and drastically pruned the network. There used to be a mainline from Grimsby taking fish to London and branch lines for fresh produce, that all went. Now there's just the holiday route to Skeggy to sustain the line, and the occasional steel train from Boston Dock.
E Lincs is basically a farm and food factory with truck routes, travelling on single cabbage-ways, with the occasional double cabbage-way out of the County to provide your 5-a-day.

Yep I know that's why its in the description above ;)
But even with that eventually everything stutters - of course that could be my kit. ;)

You can use GrandT's mod:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1376047700&searchtext=Grand+T
Works great for the Midlands map. Use it myself.

Hi Wagstaff-
yes. TPF has a real issue with performance when you create a lot of people
- so to keep the population down a bit, I put towns where the stations are.

Admittedly some of you might like to run some bus routes out to other towns.
Tell me which ones you'd like added and I'll put them in.

GrandT is currently running a map with 600 towns so we have a bit of room still :)

Although if we hit that number then the game will probably start to struggle by the time we hit 1960.

Blimey East Lincolnshire looks really barren :O

I guess you only did towns with current rail connections?

:) And there it is 1 negative rating - makes me smile every time - I can get 99 positive ratings but there is always without fail 1 negative rating :)

I see - Thank you! I'm going to work on a 1:4 south coast map.

And then -

Once that's done - I take the shortest side and scale that up to a TPF map size (4097 most of the time) and see what the other side comes out at. Then I use the selection tool to Grab an area that's the right ratio (Length to Height).

I use gaussian blur filter tool in GIMP to soften the map a bit - sometimes I run that 10 times.

In the map.lua I tend to go for a max height of 500 and water level of 85 if its hilly and see what it looks like. If its flattish I go for an initial max height of 100.

This process works fine for the UK - but if you are working with a mounting area then you run into issues with the sun reflecting off the snow on one side of the mountain and the other side being in darkness so the heightmap is all wrong. Its a true labour of love to balance it out.

Hi RolleyPovey
:) - That's always the challenging bit. - Here's what I do:-

I take 60km squares that overlap - enough so that you can match the detail.
I create a blank file in GIMP which is big enough to take the area I want to map with a bit of space around it - allowing for each downloaded image is a 1081 pixel square.
I then open the first corner image and copy and paste it into the blank file. Then I open the next one - copy and paste it and line it up with the overlapped detail - rinse and repeat.

Hey, fellow map maker! Can you please tell me how to stitch the terrain.party heightmaps together into one big image?

ok thanks for that I will try it

yep run it with the no initial roads mod - I don't know what the issue is for certain but I imagine its going to be a town in the peak district that's on the side of a hill.

does anyone have any idea why cannot load this map. I keep getting a message ' game initialization failed: could not construct street network ' . Am I missing something ?

Hi DieselPoweredGerbil
Try this

On your pc:- go here
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\446800\1723796247\maps\powerhouse

edit the file map.lua with notepad. (make a copy first).
Go to the bottom of the file
Somewhere near the bottom you will find lines like this

local industries = {
{pos .... }
{pos .....}
}

delete the two lines that begin {pos

so you have this

local industries = {
}

and save - now when you use this map TPF will try and place random industry

I have to say I haven't tried this out and have no idea if TPF will succeed as the map is already very busy with towns. But give it a shot.

Why don't you play with infinite money?
Because navigating challenges (ie, industries placed in less-than-ideal places) is a part of the game?

Why don't you place your own industry?

same question as below - an industry version would be great

Question: why are so many maps "no industry"?

Okay so couple of revisions - Doncaster relocated to its correct position and the humber given a bit more length before it 'drys' up.

Guys - Its just been pointed out to me that something weird has happened to some of the town placements on this map. Doncaster for example has moved miles from its right location. The tool I use to position towns does some odd things occasionally and I fixed the ones I noticed but with 369 towns I obviously missed some. I'm going to go back and check them all.

Thanks for the feedback -

Louis.Allot - run it with the no initial roads mod.

Gavt1976 - Your welcome - enjoy.

James - Rivers have always been an issue - because in this game there is only one water level - so you either cut them short or end up with deep ravines - or bring the max height down which on this map would flatten the peek district -

Great map although the humber estuary is way too short. It doesnt even reach hull but should really go up towards at least goole as a large river

Thank you for doing this map for me and community @Mad Hatter, you are amazing mate. :)

Mind saying that it works with mine loaded.

@ louis.allott: Have you got "No Initial Roads" mod installed? If so, maybe leave it out and try it?

Good lord..... Recreating the Metrolink system for Gtr' Manchester will be fun with this map!

Hmm all i get is Game initialization failed: Could not construct street network

Nice map! I haven't looked too much into the map yet, but there is a mistake with a town name.
You have Wallgate when it should be Wigan. Wigan Wallgate is a station there [as well as Wigan Northwestern on the WCML]. Looking forward to play on this map soon! Well done!