Detailed Valley map now interactive. Rebuild from the ground up!

[Dr. Zoidberg]

A year ago or so I made a guide with a link to the SVG map I made of the valley with speedlimits, grades and so on. It worked great and was used a lot but in the past weeks it has changed from a map based on manually drawn tracks to an export from the game that is accurate and has way more info available. Aside from the essense (idea) not much of the original is left so I want to use this discussion to bring the guide and the awesome new interactive map to your attention!

The mod/tool that is used to make this map + the interactive map itself is made and hosted through github by Pyronicampt!

https://pyronicampt.github.io/DV-Community-Map/

[Geoppolis]

It seems clear that a great deal of effort went into this. Nice work, and thank you,

[Bobby]

Superb! Would love if this was a download. It's great it shows directions into the industries

[vSumpi]

Thanks man!

[cola98765]

scrolling is weirdly slow, as if it was waiting for the last tick to finish before accepting another input.
But otherwise great!

[schutt]

The speed restrictions seem to be off in position and a lot of them are only visible when zooming in verry far. I liked the original map more. Keep working on it, the interactive feature is cool but at the moment due to the way the speed restrictions are displayed verry misleading, a major point of a map for me would be to see the location of the lowest restrictions and the map seems to like to display the highest restrictions.

What i mean is its easy to miss a 30 sign and it can get you in a lot of trouble, as in some places there are 30 signs directly behind 70 / 60 signs, which leads me to seeing the 60, shoveling coal into my steamer to speed up and missing the low sign because of coal shoveling.

[Kissell13]

Originally posted by schutt:

What i mean is its easy to miss a 30 sign and it can get you in a lot of trouble, as in some places there are 30 signs directly behind 70 / 60 signs, which leads me to seeing the 60, shoveling coal into my steamer to speed up and missing the low sign because of coal shoveling.

Dumb question, and I know nothing about trains irl. Is this realistic in any way?? Why would there ever be a 60 mph zone and then right away drop to 20 or 30. Id more expect it to be like 40 then drop to 20. I know it generally takes a bit of time to slow down big trains, so it doesnt really make sense that they would do that.

[vSumpi]

Originally posted by Kissell13:

Originally posted by schutt:

Dumb question, and I know nothing about trains irl. Is this realistic in any way?? Why would there ever be a 60 mph zone and then right away drop to 20 or 30. Id more expect it to be like 40 then drop to 20. I know it generally takes a bit of time to slow down big trains, so it doesnt really make sense that they would do that.

In real life I only saw 100->60 or 80->40/20

[maxine]

Originally posted by Kissell13:

Originally posted by schutt:

What i mean is its easy to miss a 30 sign and it can get you in a lot of trouble, as in some places there are 30 signs directly behind 70 / 60 signs, which leads me to seeing the 60, shoveling coal into my steamer to speed up and missing the low sign because of coal shoveling.

Dumb question, and I know nothing about trains irl. Is this realistic in any way?? Why would there ever be a 60 mph zone and then right away drop to 20 or 30. Id more expect it to be like 40 then drop to 20. I know it generally takes a bit of time to slow down big trains, so it doesnt really make sense that they would do that.

It's a game and it's meant and made to be challenging. The speed limits are kph, not mph, but that's not the point. There are also additional signs indicating whether the next speed limit will be more than 20 above or more than 20 below the current limit, at which point you can already start slowing down when you know the next limit will be significantly slower (there are one or two exceptions where they forgot to add these additional signs and you come around a corner and are hit with a 20 speed limit coming out of a 60 or 80 zone, fun times). It doesn't state the distance to the next speed limit sign, but they are generally not that far apart.

[numbat]

Excellent resource. I had found an older one of these from an earlier version, but this one is up to date and much better laid out. Many thanks for the effort.

Cheers,
Chris.