Urban Area Map Showcase

[spotila]

Originally Posted by snowland

PD 1: Can't wait to see Buenos Aires. I have it here, but I don't want to disturb your thread.

I appreciate it

Originally Posted by earthJoker

Then I can make one of Zürich.

I'll pm you

[spotila]

Next up, an old railway hub, and a city recently the victim of a catastrophic disaster

Buffalo, NY
City Population: 261,310
Metro Population (includes Niagara): 1,203,997


Port-au-Prince, Haiti
City Population: 704,776 (before earthquake)
Metro Population: 1,728,100 (before earthquake?)

[snowland]

So there's a city named Carrefour

[Hia-leah JDM]

Can't wait for Miami. It's the longest and most distinct urban area.

[saurdemol]

you should use a numerical scale factor. 1:4000 for example, and not a km zoom scale, because as the screen will look different in Google.

[Xpressway]

Originally Posted by spotila

That's what I thought - can any Chileans confirm this figure?

Santiago has a different system, the city is divided in communes which are independent with different majors and different administration. It's like many small cities put toguether that end up making one big metro area.

The downtown itself (as an administrative division) is small but there's like a "greater downtown" which ends up making a fair downtown for a city the size of Santiago even though the city also has an uptown (which is shown all the time in SSC instead of the downtown) and some urban sprawl but not an impressive urban sprawl compaired to other metro areas famous for their sprawl. 200k inhabitants is definately not accurate for Santiago as a city rather than metro area, 200k is just for the downtown administrative division which is surrounded by a very dense area.

The city has 6061185 inhabitants and about 7200000 in the metro area.

[spotila]

Excellent, thanks for clearing it up. I've taken out the city figure and just left in the metro

[spotila]

Next up, one of the worlds most livable cities, and the City of Angels (which quite frankly is just ridiculously big)

Vancouver, BC
City Population: 578,041
Metro Population: 2,443,000


Los Angeles, CA
City Population: 3,792,621
Metro Population: 17,786,419 (CSA, includes Long Beach, Riverside)
Image now resized and accurate

[Leandro_lenz]

wow that's huge !

[the spliff fairy]

can you do Seoul-Inchon? Its pop 26 million, but the urban area is tiny (SK has the densest average urban areas in the world)

[LosAngelesSportsFan]

Basically all of LA is red other than LAX and the mountains lol

[snowland]

OMG, LA is huge

[IrishMan2010]

Holy s**t, LA is just crazy, I would like to see the size of the land use maps planners use for there!. Great thread, look forward to seeing more cities!

[spotila]

Originally Posted by the spliff fairy

can you do Seoul-Inchon? Its pop 26 million, but the urban area is tiny (SK has the densest average urban areas in the world)

it shouldn't be far away

Originally Posted by LosAngelesSportsFan

Basically all of LA is red other than LAX and the mountains lol

LAX is actually red - the small area near LAX you see that isn't red is a large plot of undeveloped land next to Marina Del Rey

[Wunderknabe]

Originally Posted by saurdemol

you should use a numerical scale factor. 1:4000 for example, and not a km zoom scale, because as the screen will look different in Google.

That, too, is no good idea. Because the jpgs will appear in different sizes on different resolutions and different display-sizes.


Better use a scale like 100 m/pixel

London, Paris, Berlin, NY at 200 m/px

[spotila]

FYI - all the images I create are made on the same PC with the same resolution, and I triple check all the measurements. Please feel free to get out your measuring tool if you need confirmation
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Next, New Zealand's capital, and the beautiful 'Windy City'

Wellington, New Zealand
Metro Population: 389,700


Chicago, IL
note: Chicago map replaced by Chicago-Milwaukee Combined map
Milwaukee Metro Population: 1,751,316
Chicago Metro Population: 9,804,845
Conurbation Population: ~11,600,000

[jabroni]

There are a lot of rural areas colored in red on that map. How do you decide what is red?

[spotila]

There's not really a lot, just small patches here and there. Oftentimes it's not possible to eliminate every piece of bare land. Is there any particular area that's upsetting you?

[Xusein]

Great thread, thanks for the maps.

[daneo]

could you please do the Amsterdam / Randstad area and the Ruhrarea in Germany?