You would need the 81 tiles mod to unlock everything to be playable since most of West Seattle is outside of the 25 playable tiles. @Linconlou

How would I go about making the west seattle portion completley playable?

Perfect, I live right in the middle. Thank you

also maybe expanding a bit north would be nice (since thats were i live)

great map ..... nothing more to say

The map is a pretty good rendition of Seattle. It's obvious that you took time and thought with this.

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I did put a lot of time (about 6-8 days and countless hours each day) into this map trying to make it good. A lot of thought and a lot of hours.It was my first map and I did what I could. I do plan on updating it and I will look into what you said. Thanks for the comments, though!

@TG: Do keep in mind that it is a game. To make things perfectly perfect is virtually impossible.

That being said, what exactly are you referring to?As for beaches, to my knowledge most beaches but aren't they really just thin, mostly rocky/grassy strips along the coast? Nothing really "beach" like about them, to me. With notable exception of Alki Beach, but that's out of the buildable range even with 25 tiles

SR I left out mostly because I want to leave creativity when building. I focused on the Interstates instead. I'm aware of the rail (my college thesis was about this actually) but for map sake and again, giving a bit of freedom, I tried to throw it through as many tiles as I could. I was thinking more for game playing (without the unlimited cash and stuff). So, for example having a West Seattle Bridge or random rail on Harbor Island and having someone never expand there, might look a bit silly, yeah? That was a typo (meant King County Int'l)

@Autechr3: I'm updating the map hopefully soon (been busy and such). Everything says Seattle on my game, so I'm not sure why you guys get "New Map," but I'll hopefully have that fixed in the update.

Can you name the map? It is showing up as "New Map" in game.

I've been playing for a week and I subscribed hoping to save time re-creating the area. Remarks below, tried to keep it constructive.

Coastlines are what one sees when using admin boundaries for water instead of actual topo... Please fix public beaches at least.

Re: "tidiously [sic] accurate rail, air, train, and road" Where's W Seattle bridge? SR 99 / viaduct, a major feature (eyesore, imho) of our downtown waterfront? SR 520 bridge? Why is I-90 at 2 heights, it's pontoon bridge in reality? Downtown could easily be fixed with freeway ramps. Freight rail is separate from our light rail, which runs from Westlake Station to SEA-TAC. Seattle became a major metropolitan centre because the RR ended at its port. Present-day rail does go up to Balmer Yard and North along the coast. Your "heavy flightlines" are over SODO, miles from SEA-TAC.

When I have time, I'll try doing this right. If you put "(Very Accurate)" on here, please give attention to the integrity of your map.

Cheers =]

Yeah, I stuck with this area since I was more familiar with it. But I can definitely look into making a North Seattle Map :)

Great map, but it's centered in the wrong area. The one neighborhood I want to recreate is the one I live in (Magnolia) which is just outside of the tile area. (Can see it, but can't do anything to it... :P ). Also, it would be nice to have Ballard, Fremont and Wallingford instead of South Seattle. Are you planning on doing a Seattle "North" version?

@cwgeorge87 - definitely [i.imgur.com] still looks like "new map" to me

@SE: Yes! It's so nicely done, too. Now just waiting on the Smith Tower and Columbia Center to make it complete :p

@Roberto: No idea why :/ I looked over my files and all of the said Seattle. I would suggest retry subscribing to it. If that doesn't work, I'll look into it further!

Oh-ho! I assume you have seen this.. but just in case you have not: http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=411793493

I have an issue: this beautiful map loads under the name "New Map" rather than "Seattle".

For some reason takes forever to load. :( Looks great though.

Downloading this and the Space Needly ploppable. Stoked! Thanks for this.

Love it. Queen Ann Hill could stand to be a little bit closer to downtown. Also I think the possibilites will open up as soon as they add undergound roads and rails. Then the Bus/Light Rail tunnels can run underneath downtown also Hwy 99 can go partially underground as well. SPeaking of Light Rail where's the streetcars/Light Rail on this game as well as Monorails? Somebody get on that quick!

Ahh what it would look like with out some bout 5 mill people and also i created wenatchee in the center of the state

all we need now is the space needle

Damn! If you could only have gone a little further north...

Thanks from a fellow Seattleite!

So cool! Been waiting for a Seattle map ever since I realized it could be done. I can't wait to build my rendition of Seattle. Good thing Recreational Use is an option ;]

as a local, lets see if I can get traffic better than what we currently have!

Yes, yes, and yes.
I love you.
Although, in your description you say its "seattle and sourounding Puget Sound region". No, its just seattle. In fact, Seattle is actually more then what is shown on the map. Like, Northgate is part of Seattle and thats farther north then this map shows.
But still. this is AWESOME, I love it!

It would be great if you could share some of your mods on the Cities Skylines community site at http://www.citiesskylines-nation.com/ ! :) (they can be linked from steam, or you can upload them there as well)

Thanks! :)

Great job! I can already see the traffic building up this is really well done

As a local, I love this.

Nice Job.

Mostly the only issue I had when trying to recreate a realistic Seattle was the location of I-5 being slightly off in a lot of places. I can't say I had any major concerns! :)

I would love to see an updated version, now that you played the map, are there any changes to it that you would make, apart from adding the 520 and its respective interchanges?

Of course! I welcome any feedback you have!

Sweet! I live in Seattle as well sothanks for uploading! If you need/want any eventual feedback or anything let me know!

I'll probably have it up in a day or two. Zoning grids is a bitch :p

I would be very interested in that :)

@Mr Krabs: That's exactly what I'm doing now :p I uploaded a few screenshots already! It's so much fun! A pain in the ass ( I spent about 9 hours just laying roads in Downtown/Belltown/SODO) I was actually thinking of uploading my save eventually. :p

Looking forward to it! I plan on starting a city on your map, with google maps right beside me, and try to recreate Seattle as close as possible :)

Thanks everyone for the support!

@Mr. Krabs: You're 100% right, the Lake Union/Union Bay/Lake Washington area is a little different. It's mostly a Water and Sea Level issue. I've noticed game has a few issues with Sea Level and higher terrian maps). To get water flow outward, and to make space for a ship line to Lake Washington, I had to sacrifice a bit of accuracy. I did forget 520! I'll look to add it soon! Thanks for pointing that out.

Very Nice. Could you make Phillipines??

I like it! However, the area where Lake Union and Lake Washington meet looks different (the area to the east of where the i5 crosses lake union), and the 520 with the Evergreen Point Bridge is missing. Apart from that, it looks great.

Love it!

Awesome job dude. Way better than mine!

I friggin love Seattle minus the hipsters...