You can also find a version for ETS2 in the following thread: viewtopic.php?p=1646943#p1646943
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FAQs and extra information
Why is X place not in the map?
To avoid over cluttering the map with labels, I made some rules for myself:
- Features located inside a marked city are not included because there would not be enough space for them.
- The towns that are visible but inaccessible while being part of larger metropolitan areas have only been included if they are specifically signed in the game. This has been made to avoid the addition of too many labels.
- Mountain passes are only shown when some noticeable change in elevation exists in the game.
- Airports are not shown as a landmark, they are many of them and are easily recognizable.
- Important industries, such as chemical plants or hydroelectric dams are currently included as landmarks, but I’m not sure about their inclusion since the definition of ‘important industry’ is not very clear.
How did you make the map?
I used QGIS (https://www.qgis.org/en/site/), a free mapmaking software that lets you edit geospatial information to create and analyze maps. QGIS lets you use OpenStreetMap and Google Maps as background basemaps for reference, which helped me to add towns and landmarks as points and "draw" roads and highways as vectors. The background of the map was made combining several 'shapefiles'. Shapefiles are files that contain geographic data for any topic (they can have information about coastlines, borders, mountains, rivers...). I get my basic shapefiles from www.naturalearthdata.com, which offers public domain data.
Once I had more or less everything in place, I exported the map as a PNG, and I made the final edits and refinement with the paint.net image editing software.
How did you find information for the landmarks?
Most of the research for the landmarks on this map was made 'manually', that is, examining every in-game road with the dev cam, taking note of every interesting place, and then trying to find their IRL counterparts on Google Maps or OpenStreetMap.
And again, feel free to comment any errors or missing places that you see in the map! Even now I'm still finding new villages and landmarks that I hadn't caught before. Enjoy!
