Good mapping and hello!
Here are some things to make your city/town or country better!
- Avoid making Grid-topoli, cities e.g Los Angeles have grids, but not like everywhere!
- Avoid using large roads too much, in suburban and downtown areas, use tertiary ways as important/main roads, residential ways as smaller roads, like between houses/buildings, and smaller ways as ways connecting houses to streets etc.
- Use large roads when connecting a city/town to another. When connecting to a village, use secondary, when connecting to a town/smaller city, either use a primary road or a trunk, and when connecting to important cities/capitals, use a highway.
- First build the big stuff, such as roads, then smaller stuff as streets, districts, intersections, interchanges, then smaller to important buildings such as train-stations and bus-stations, then again to terrain and average buildings.
- Rarely use a highway in the middle of a city. Highways are important ways, which should be used in connecting important cities/capitals. Highways consist of at least 4 tracks, such as Autobahn. Trunks may be used outside downtown and suburbs, as they only consist of at least 2 tracks and up to 4 tracks.
- Countries should consist of 30% Highway, 30% Trunks, 20% Primary/Secondary, 10% Tertiary and 10% smaller roads.
- Historical cities may consist of "spider web" based road systems, modern cities and areas may consist of curved roads, or grids (avoid too many grids), use inspiration from other cities. European themed can come from London, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Paris. Slavic themed can come from Moscow, Kijev, Minsk and Jerevan, Middle Eastern themed cities can come from Konya, Baghdad, Damascus, and Tehran. Asian themed cities can come from Beijing, Tokyo, Mumbai and Bangkok et cetera.
- Avoid from all costs names from the real world, Embassy of Canada should be instead Embassy of Commonia, OGF does not "allow" city names or country names from the real earth. And better, create your own city and spread the words!
- No need to name roads. For me, the most important roads to name are Highways/Trunks, Secondary/Primary, and sometimes, Tertiary. Naming small roads are a waste of useful time if you have a country which 80% of it is empty. Even prof-mappers don't name small roads!
- When you have a new country, decide if you start geographicaly, or with roads and residentials. It is recommended to start with geography, because then it is easier to modify cities and etc.
Hope it helps and i would be happy if someone could help me too!
- Theruler
Greetings from Hifnakia!
