The Digital Revolution

Work on the original map started as early as 1996. Lots of maps had allready been drawn by me at that time. But the most interesting parts allways were cities and the so much needed infrastructure like airports, railway networks and - although I'm a green guy - highways. Creating a whole landscape with mountains and woods and so on to put a major city in there is very time consuming. So I decided to make things easy in 1996: a totally flat area created by a river flowing into the ocean was chosen as location for a big city. That was the start:


But as one can see, the scanned papers appear very greyish. This is not for lack of scanning quality. It's simply some ten years that left their marks. So I tried a software in order to digitize the whole thing. And here I am:


I merely just started and there is lots of blanks where railroads and halls and other buildings are supposed to be. But I'm working on it, and it comes in color.