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Message no. 1
From: derek@***************.com (Derek Hyde)
Subject: List Check (still alive) and SR Map Help
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 21:47:10 -0500
Hey, are ya'll still alive?

Anyway, I'm in dire need of finding a map of the shadowrun world that
actually has mountain ranges and such labeled on it as well as major rivers,
and a few cities in each area would be nice too....

Derek
Message no. 2
From: gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject: List Check (still alive) and SR Map Help
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:45:25 +0200
According to Derek Hyde, on 1-6-06 04:47 the word on the street was...

> Hey, are ya'll still alive?

No, we've all been taken over by shedim ;)

> Anyway, I'm in dire need of finding a map of the shadowrun world that
> actually has mountain ranges and such labeled on it as well as major rivers,
> and a few cities in each area would be nice too....

Um ... wouldn't a RL map work for that? AFAIK no mountain ranges moved
around or major rivers sprang up during the Awakening :) You could
overlay, for example, Wordman's SR world map on that so you get the SR
borders in the right places.

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Message no. 3
From: scott@**********.com (Scott Harrison)
Subject: List Check (still alive) and SR Map Help
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 11:31:21 +0200
On Jun 1, 2006, at 10:45 , Gurth wrote:

> According to Derek Hyde, on 1-6-06 04:47 the word on the street was...
>
>> Anyway, I'm in dire need of finding a map of the shadowrun world that
>> actually has mountain ranges and such labeled on it as well as
>> major rivers,
>> and a few cities in each area would be nice too....
>
> Um ... wouldn't a RL map work for that? AFAIK no mountain ranges
> moved around or major rivers sprang up during the Awakening :) You
> could overlay, for example, Wordman's SR world map on that so you
> get the SR borders in the right places.

It could be really nice to have some mapping package (like GRASS)
that has overlays with SR information in it. So instead of putting a
weather pattern over a map, one can have all the SR toxic zones, etc.
overlayed over real mapping data. Unfortunately I have no time to
work on something like this. Maybe in four or five years I can get
around to it. :-(

--
·𐑕𐑒𐑪𐑑
·𐑣𐑺𐑦𐑕𐑩𐑯 Scott
Harrison
Message no. 4
From: jeremie.bouillon@****.fr (Jérémie_Bouillon)
Subject: List Check (still alive) and SR Map Help
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:32:38 +0200
Gurth wrote:
> No, we've all been taken over by shedim ;)

Ssshhhh... we wasn't suppose to tell before Halloween...

> Um ... wouldn't a RL map work for that? AFAIK no mountain ranges moved
> around or major rivers sprang up during the Awakening :) You could
> overlay, for example, Wordman's SR world map on that so you get the SR
> borders in the right places.

If anyone know good places for maps, even IRL one, that would be a good
start.


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http://shadowrun.fr
Message no. 5
From: mal2@**.com (Jerry Hill)
Subject: List Check (still alive) and SR Map Help
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 09:45:47 -0400
On 6/1/06, Jérémie Bouillon <jeremie.bouillon@****.fr> wrote:
> If anyone know good places for maps, even IRL one, that would be a good
> start.

Well, here's some of the things I use for maps resources:
http://maps.google.com
http://local.live.com
http://www.topozone.com/

The first two have street maps, satellite images, and some areal
photography. The best images are generally inside the US, but both
are expanding to cover the rest of the world as well. The last one
has topo maps for the whole US.

Of course, things have changed between now and the world of 2050+, but
the underlying geography is usually the same, and real life gives you
an extraordinarily rich base to build on.

--
Jerry
Message no. 6
From: derek@***************.com (Derek Hyde)
Subject: List Check (still alive) and SR Map Help
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:27:56 -0500
> Um ... wouldn't a RL map work for that? AFAIK no mountain ranges moved
> around or major rivers sprang up during the Awakening :) You could
> overlay, for example, Wordman's SR world map on that so you get the SR
> borders in the right places.
>
See, I thought of trying that but can't get it to work right for me.....
Message no. 7
From: derek@***************.com (Derek Hyde)
Subject: List Check (still alive) and SR Map Help
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:30:11 -0500
> The first two have street maps, satellite images, and some areal
> photography. The best images are generally inside the US, but both
> are expanding to cover the rest of the world as well. The last one
> has topo maps for the whole US.
>
> Of course, things have changed between now and the world of 2050+, but
> the underlying geography is usually the same, and real life gives you
> an extraordinarily rich base to build on.
>
Tis very true....I'm actually needing topo of parts of the middle
east....I'm running an evil run on my forum game ;) and I figured giving the
players a map might be nice of me...then again, not necessarily needed ;)
Message no. 8
From: bulletraven@***********.com (Peter Mellett)
Subject: List Check (still alive) and SR Map Help
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:32:25 +0100
Derek Hyde wrote:
>> Um ... wouldn't a RL map work for that? AFAIK no mountain ranges moved
>> around or major rivers sprang up during the Awakening :) You could
>> overlay, for example, Wordman's SR world map on that so you get the SR
>> borders in the right places.
>>
>>
> See, I thought of trying that but can't get it to work right for me.....
>
>
>
>
>
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world_maps/world_rel_803005AI_2003.jpg

will that do the job? looks cool to me ;)
Message no. 9
From: derek@***************.com (Derek Hyde)
Subject: List Check (still alive) and SR Map Help
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:15:36 -0500
> http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world_maps/world_rel_803005AI_2003.jpg
>
> will that do the job? looks cool to me ;)
>
Unfortunately no, cause with the skew/shaping of it it wouldn't lay up
against the SR map that wordman did....which....is kinda a pain ;) but yeah,
if it were like that but slightly different ;)
Message no. 10
From: bulletraven@***********.com (Peter Mellett)
Subject: List Check (still alive) and SR Map Help
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:25:22 +0100
Derek Hyde wrote:
>> http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world_maps/world_rel_803005AI_2003.jpg
>>
>> will that do the job? looks cool to me ;)
>>
>>
> Unfortunately no, cause with the skew/shaping of it it wouldn't lay up
> against the SR map that wordman did....which....is kinda a pain ;) but yeah,
> if it were like that but slightly different ;)
>
>
>
>
>
I'll try and rustle something up ;)
Message no. 11
From: Paul.Grosse@***********.com (Paul Grosse)
Subject: List Check (still alive) and SR Map Help
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:42:35 -0400
> On 6/1/06, Jérémie Bouillon <jeremie.bouillon@****.fr> wrote:
> > If anyone know good places for maps, even IRL one, that would be a
> > good start.
>
> Well, here's some of the things I use for maps resources:
> http://maps.google.com
> http://local.live.com
> http://www.topozone.com/
>
> The first two have street maps, satellite images, and some
> areal photography. The best images are generally inside the
> US, but both are expanding to cover the rest of the world as
> well. The last one has topo maps for the whole US.
>
> Of course, things have changed between now and the world of
> 2050+, but the underlying geography is usually the same, and
> real life gives you an extraordinarily rich base to build on.
>
> --
> Jerry
>

Use GoogleEarth, then all of us could help create a mark-up file of specific SR info for
the entire world. :)

Paul G.
Message no. 12
From: bulletraven@***********.com (Peter Mellett)
Subject: List Check (still alive) and SR Map Help
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:45:17 +0100
Paul Grosse wrote:
>> On 6/1/06, Jérémie Bouillon <jeremie.bouillon@****.fr> wrote:
>>
>>> If anyone know good places for maps, even IRL one, that would be a
>>> good start.
>>>
>> Well, here's some of the things I use for maps resources:
>> http://maps.google.com
>> http://local.live.com
>> http://www.topozone.com/
>>
>> The first two have street maps, satellite images, and some
>> areal photography. The best images are generally inside the
>> US, but both are expanding to cover the rest of the world as
>> well. The last one has topo maps for the whole US.
>>
>> Of course, things have changed between now and the world of
>> 2050+, but the underlying geography is usually the same, and
>> real life gives you an extraordinarily rich base to build on.
>>
>> --
>> Jerry
>>
>>
>
> Use GoogleEarth, then all of us could help create a mark-up file of specific SR info
for the entire world. :)
>
> Paul G.
>
>
>
I think some guys on dumpshock were looking to do that, might be worth
seeing if that got anywhere. I'd be interested in helping out too.

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