Live Mapping: Big City Project 1

Loopysue

Hi Everyone! :D

This week, Ralf will be starting a large and ongoing city mapping project that will stretch over multiple sessions at irregular intervals.

You can watch it right here if you like:

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Or if you prefer to come along and join in the chat with us on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP5dh0ICVIY

Loopysue

30 minute shout :)

Fersus

how did Ralf get the image he had from the city into CC3+? When I try it with copy/past I get a pop up stating that the clipboard is empty :/

Loopysue

I was having reception issues in that moment with slow broadband, but the usual way is by Insert File in the Draw menu.

Monsen

To elaborate why you get that "Clipboard empty" message.

CC3+ doesn't embed images in the drawing, but link to external files. This is why you can't simply paste from the clipboard, since the clipboard isn't a file CC3+ can refer to.

The reason it is reported as empty however, is that the Windows clipboard is kind of smart. It can keep the same data in multiple formats (for example, if you copy some text from a web page, the clipboard will store both a plain text version of the text, as well as a formatted version). Whenever you paste, the clipboard will pick the version that is suitable for the program you try to paste into. However, the only thing CC3+ can accept are either plain text, or CC3+ entities, and after copying an image from somewhere else, the clipboard won't contain any of those. Therefore it is empty as far as CC3+ sees, because it doesn't have anything to offer that program.

Fersus

thanks for the information!

[Deleted User]

I am motivated by Ralf's video (with more to come I am sure), Alyssa Faden's series on mapping the city of Womtham, and my desire to do an even better city than the three big ones I have already done (Vertshusen, Torstan and Dun Fingolfin). Just need to pick a place in the Atlas for it (plus subregional map, of course).

Here are the links to Alyssa Faden's City mapping videos.

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Note to @Ralf any chance of persuading Alyssa to do an annual (or two) in her style that she has used for both these series?