[WIP] A Slippy Map for ATS and ETS2

[truckermudgeon]

@Maverick89 i gave it another try

now, on my iphone, i can no longer get it to zoom when either the context menu is visible, or when the "measure distance" popup is visible.

hopefully this does the trick for you (but if not, i'm all out of ideas... except for the nuclear option, which is to disable pinch-zoom on everything. but i'd like to avoid doing that, if possible).

[Maverick89]

I just tried it out on my tablet, looks like it's been fixed!

[truckermudgeon]

I just tried it out on my tablet, looks like it's been fixed!

In other news: the map has been updated to include Illinois! Scenic town labels are a bit off at the moment (e.g., a couple of interstates are misclassified as scenic towns), but I'll manually tweak those later.

[nautofon]

^ They also (once again) messed up the mileage targets in the area affected by the base map rework, this time in Nevada. I'll offer a fix for the obvious scenery town label issues in both states on GH, but probably not until tomorrow or so.

A question about Strafford, MO (commit 2fc261b): I'm guessing this is simply one of those place names that should appear on the map, even though it doesn't have a mileage target. Is that correct? Other such labels have so far been added through ats-towns metadata (e.g. Bagdad, AZ). Any reason not to treat Strafford the same way?

By the way, I'm seeing some weird graphical glitch when viewing the map at a small scale in Chrome 148.0.7778.168, but things look fine when I zoom in. Firefox doesn't seem to have this issue.
https://imgur.com/a/map-glitch-2026-05-14-C8k09gI

[truckermudgeon]

Thanks, @nautofon! I'll wait for your NV/IL changes before I take a closer look at the IL scenic towns, then.

About Strafford: yes, that's correct. And I should've committed to the ats-towns repo; I'll make that change later today (along with a typo correction to Carnuel, New Mexico).

About that Chrome graphical glitch:

Haven't noticed since I'm always on Firefox. But I spun up Chrome just now, and haven't been able to reproduce it on my macbook . I'll be updating the version of MapLIbre I use soon... maybe the problem will magically go away when I do.

[nautofon]

Thanks! Feel free to make commits to ats-towns as needed.

Before making a change to Carnuel, I suggest you check ATS 1.59 manually first (if you haven't done so already). In ATS 1.58 the town is spelled "Carunel" (imgur.com) on both of the signs that show the name. I only copied from those signs and didn't even realize that SCS made a typo there, otherwise I would've added a remark to that effect. I'd argue that the map should reflect what's actually in the game, and that we should keep "Carunel" until SCS fixes it.

[Maverick89]

Going to say/ask for feedback on this here too, since it's related:

I'm trying to continue Nautofon's city locations project on the wiki, as I play both ATS and ETS2. I've attempted to add location information to all of the Scandinavia DLC cities in Norway to test it out. Here's Oslo's.

The big challenge with ETS2 is that aside from the main routes, most of the time local roads don't have names, so I had to improvise in some cases.

Also sidenote: Should we rename this to "A Slippy Map for ATS and ETS2" since both maps are included?

[nautofon]

I'm trying to continue Nautofon's city locations project on the wiki, as I play both ATS and ETS2.

I'm so happy to hear you're writing location descriptions for both games! I had always hoped that somebody would have a go at ETS2, which I don't even have a copy of, but the whole idea is so niche that I didn't think it'd ever happen.

However, I have one important ask: Please don't use the name "Company/Facility Directory" for anything related to the wiki. The wiki term you're looking for is "city location descriptions". The reason why this is really important to me is mentioned on my wiki user pages, along with some of the unfortunate history around that distinction. At the time, I came up with the name C/FD for my own project specifically to have a clean break from the wiki.

I should also point out that the copyright licenses of the wiki and the C/FD are currently incompatible. This means that it's not allowed to copy anything from the C/FD to either wiki, nor vice versa. Not that I'm suggesting you copied anything! I just want to state the situation clearly to avoid any possible misunderstanding by anyone who reads this thread.

All that said, I fully support your efforts and wish you success!

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Not to go too far off topic in this thread, but since you asked for feedback, let me just briefly say: The issue with lack of street names you mention is something I encountered in ATS, too. Back when I still contributed to the wiki, I recorded some thoughts on how to deal with that in the guidelines for city location descriptions.

Since you mention Oslo, let me give an example for that city: In Billingstad, I would try to make clear to the reader that they need to go west when leaving the highway, and then which way they need to turn in this particular roundabout: truckermudgeon.github.io?mlat=60.074&mlon=9.766. That's the important bit; armed with that info, people should be able to find the locations, easy. I might try wording it like "Norrfood: Southwest of E18 exit 17, west in Oslo". But this kind of thing is easier in ATS because of the pervasive signage of cardinal directions, which is rare in Europe. So yes, lack of signage can certainly be a challenge...

[Maverick89]

^ Oh, it's just about everywhere in ETS2. None of the minor (surface) streets have names.

I've changed the name on my page as you requested, so I'll use "city locations" from now on as I didn't know that until now.

Also Those are some actually really helpful pointers! I saw on the descriptions that I could use turn-by-turn, and I think that'll be the case, especially since local streets don't have names and some of the older sections of the map still have the "grid" cities. (Looking at you, Going East!...)

Anyways, as to not clog this thread up with it, if I need help or feedback on something, I'll send you a PM on the forums if you're fine with that, @nautofon !

[nautofon]

^ Sounds good, thanks!