Sydney, Australia (by Robert)
Sydney!
One of the most beautiful natural harbours in the world!
One of the most haphazardly planned, and least affordable cities!
A slapdash colonial outpost, a sprawling tapestry of NIMBYs, tangled train lines, and growth corridors based on cattle trails. They built a bustling tram network then tore it apart and are building it again decades later. They built a monorail and nobody used it. It’s a mess but we love it.
What will YOU do with Port Jackson, Parramatta River, and Botany Bay, wiped clean of industrialised settlement? Will you build a better tomorrow, or lovingly recapitulate all of our civic mistakes and make a busted replica? This map stretches from Rose Bay in the east to the A3 motorway in the west, and from roughly St Leonards to Port Botany, representing a stretch of land once populated primarily by the Cadigal, Cammeragal, Wangal, Kayimai, Borogegal, Gorualgal, Kameygal, Wallumattagal and Bediagal nations.
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DETAILS
This is a 1:1 map made using 5m resolution elevation data available from Geoscience Australia, part of the Australian Government, and is hand tuned and smoothed for playability. Heightmaps exported from popular resources like terrain.party are much lower resolution and don’t capture the variation in altitude. It also features a mostly accurate track of the M1 and M5 motorways, and the north shore freight corridor up to Strathfield. The airport peninsulas have been removed from Botany Bay. If you’ve got more road options than the base game I really recommend tearing it up because I did not fine tune the Cahill Expressway as much as it will need to sit alongside developed city. As for that double bridge.. I put it there to motivate me.
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SUPPORTING WORKSHOP ITEMS
It is best used with the Australian Coast theme by pdelmo, as well as the vegetation assets listed on the right. Rather than click through each individually, it’s easier to just subscribe to their collection here: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=893766060
If you want to try your luck taming the hilly North shore, get the 81 tiles mod by BloodyPenguin:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=576327847
Required items:
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Australia Coast HD map theme — Steam Workshop
WildFlowerBush. Crepe Myrtle (Lagerstroemia archeriana) — Steam Workshop
TallGrass2 by pdelmo — Steam Workshop
River Red Gum — Steam Workshop
Large Savannah Grass brown — Steam Workshop
Large Green Patch — Steam Workshop
Large Dry patch — Steam Workshop
Indian Grass arid tall — Steam Workshop
Gumtree Cluster Smooth Bark — Steam Workshop
Gumtree Cluster Rough Bark — Steam Workshop
Green Grass patch — Steam Workshop
Forest Floor Patch — Steam Workshop
Bush Shrubs Low Poly — Steam Workshop
Blue Gum — Steam Workshop
BIG Aussie Gums — Steam Workshop
Beech_Tree — Steam Workshop
AussieBushShrubs — Steam Workshop
Australian Gray Mangrove — Steam Workshop
Brown grass patch — Steam Workshop
BottleBrush — Steam Workshop
