Kingsbury has been the featured map over the last fortnight, an honour I was delighted to receive.
That said, it can always be better, and so I’ve spent much of the last few days working on adding more details. From buildings, offices, shops, and clubs; the city now looks more filled-in and alive. But i’ve also been working on adding those small things that add reality to a map, and are a reality of city life, such as payphones, pillar boxes, bus stops, and bins. It’s fiddly work, but definitely worth the effort.
My next challenge to resume adding the streets in the various outer suburbs of the city. Something i’m not looking forward to, since getting curvy suburban streets to look accurate has been beyond me so far
Discussion
Comment from Myrcia on 30 January 2017 at 23:07
As you know Kingsbury is one of my favourite cities in OGF and I actually find it hard to give constructive feedback because you do put so much detail and reality into the map. All I can really say is that I look forward to seeing it expand and grow.
If you were looking for a challenge I think I’d like to see a historic centre outside Kingsbury. Kingsbury is obviously a planned city along the lines of Welwyn or Letchworth (or Canberra if we’re being more ambitious) so I’d like to see how you tackle a town with a much earlier foundation.
Comment from Ūdilugbulgidħū on 30 January 2017 at 23:35
I really like your mapping. There is a great contrast between the grid centre and the rural surround; I think you should preserve this. You must have your own conception of how these places developed through history. So I think, if you can, preserve as much of this contrast possible. You may not need a curvy suburbia or central historia; maybe the history lies beneath and the fringe is already there. What’s the story of the people who built the place? I think its already there, more or less. Comes a point when it can’t be better.
Comment from tparigo on 31 January 2017 at 15:31
The city looks amazing. Just go on mapping :)
I am looking forward to see more of it.
Thomas