[WIP] Redway Hill Township (CA211 Watabou Revisited)
Okay, here's a larger town. I kept getting interruptions, but I'd say it took me about two hours. This time I imported the trees, but I must have been doing something wrong when I changed like draw tool, because I was just getting the outlines. I ended up manually adding the trees using the draw tool.
With this map and my previous ones, I changed the buildings in small batches, by blocks or neighborhoods. I did that in part because I kept missing roads, and then adding them as I was going neighborhood by neighborhood. When I tackle a big city, I will try it where I do everything else first, eliminate extraneous non-building import lines, and then select everything left to convert into buildings.
This is what Watabou gave me:
And this is what I turned it into:
Comments
Yes, I did actually suggest doing the buildings last in the annual notes. I am not sure why you couldn't get the trees to work with change like draw tools - be interested to see what your import actually looked like before you started to change things - any chance os sending an image of that next city.
So glad you are continuimg to try it out.
Here's the next city, though I may not get a chance to tackle it before this weekend. Wolfwell Falls, population 55,000.
Make sure you leave the buildings to last. And I hope you don't export the text.
And don't use Change Like Draw tools for the lesser streets. use the Draw tools directly.
Yup, yup! That’s what I did for the previous maps. I suspect the largest amount of time will be taken in locating and drawing the minor roads.
Are you importing trees - I only did that as a try to see if it worked (which it did) but I would do what you do, and add my own where I want them, ditto with the fields. I use the Draw tool using the fills with furrows which automatically align themselves- I would rather like to see how you go with that.
The minor roads are a bit difficult, but if you inadvertently make them into buildings with the Change Like Draw Tools, you can always either use the Change Like Draw tools to turn them into minor streets, or else just delete and use Draw Tools to put in the monor street (I prefer the latter).
I imported trees the second time, but not the first. Can’t remember if I did that with this SVG. I will have to check. The fields weren’t imported, those I did with the draw tools. I discovered the fills with furrows late, but I’ll make a point of doing more with the big city.