Welcome to Marie City, the primate city of Hoppon and the center of a huge megalopolis (possibly might be the biggest “metro” in OGF)!

I want to hear your ideas on how I can improve what I already map and what I should try to incorporate into the future. I am not even close to done but if you see how much mapping I have been doing over the break, it may appear that this city just appeared out of nowhere. I still need to create a wiki article and most of my ideas have been written on paper. But this is the brainchild of Hong Kong and Tokyo openstreetmap+google (most of my ideas are from there).

Some tidbits. Their are zero named roads because I am using the Japanese address system, which uses blocks instead of intersections to find were you are. and so it will be easier to go and name roads after if they are either numbers or just major roads.

The Construction areas are places I reserved for future mapping, since often cities will have a large “block”, whether it is the blocks including Central Park, New York. Or Tokyo’s imperial palace, or simply a large school or university, these blocks are reserved for unknown things I might put in the future such as a stadium or large hotel..

Some of my poorer areas will also have large blocks and the words “danchi” because it is supposed to be a large collection of government housing. Here is one in Nete http://opengeofiction.net/#map=15/29.2125/117.5215

I did this to “distinguish” rich and poor because in dense cities like Tokyo their isn’t much “geographical difference” as in the rich and poor often have similar sized apartments and houses, and the main difference is that the rich/middle class areas tend to cluster around the center of Tokyo and to the vast majority of eastern wards. While the poorest areas are either near red light districts in the center or along the river in the northern wards of the city. Tokyo also has “danchi”, but the ones in my city are large and more noticeable compared to Tokyo’s.

My rail is probably the worst part of my mapping. I’m not used to rail and while I am not trying to remake Japan, it is sort of hard to make a Japanese-like country with my own aspects thrown in without “extensive” rail.

I plan on making this city connect to Nobunaga (hence the shared International Airport), so think of this metro as huge probably going to be close to 20 million people living in the area including Nobunaga. http://opengeofiction.net/#map=10/27.2870/110.0336

Finally, I plan to be hyperactive, this break with my mapping, so check in every few days to this thread to put more critiques. At the rate I’m going I am doing one “ku”(ward) a day. I have around twenty wards, to go till the actual city limits of Marie City is finished. So if I can keep my pace (unlikely), I will be able to roughly have a 325 square kilometer city. If you have any questions about the city just ask.

UNRELATED: Sorry for the delay, Nigerian pictures but I should be able to get mos to the good photos uploaded and posted on here before January Second. I will try to keep you guys posted about the photos.