Urban Area Map Showcase
This is a project I have been working on for some time now, in an attempt to provide a comprehensive collection for the comparison of the worlds major centers' urban spread. Please be aware that each of these takes a significant amount of time to make. The idea was inspired by Shiro's old maps. Please use any of the maps for yourself, but do give credit where due. If you would like to see your city, please let me know.
Note: Every map in this thread is at exactly the same scale (within 0.05 km altitude). They are designed to show the the extent of the urban spread of an area, not variations in density. Anyone looking to compare density of areas should look elsewhere. Also, every yellow map is to scale with every other yellow map. Note: The vast majority of maps are places I have not visited, so the accuracy of the maps are based on what I can see in adequate detail in Google Earth, or have prior knowledge of. I welcome advice on updating accuracy, but pm me if you must. Also, if you'd like to post any maps you've made yourself, please provide links rather than posting the image itself. Note: Please keep comments civil and flame-free. Cities so Far: Anchorage, Athens, Atlanta, Auckland, Baghdad, Belfast, Birmingham, Brasília, Brisbane-Gold Coast, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Buffalo, Cairns, Calgary, Cape Town, Caracas, Casablanca, Charlotte, Chicago, Christchurch, Copenhagen-Malmö, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Detroit, Dublin, Durban, Edmonton, Golden Horseshoe, Hamburg, Havana, Houston, Indianapolis, Istanbul, Kansas City, Karachi, Kinshasa-Brazzaville, Kuwait, La Paz, Las Vegas, Lausanne-Geneva, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Manchester-Liverpool, Manila, Melbourne, Mexicali, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Monterrey, Montreal, Mumbai, New Orleans, Oslo, Ottawa, Paris, Pearl River Delta, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Port-au-Prince, Portland (OR), Quebec City, Quito, Raleigh/Winston-Salem, Randstad, Rhine-Ruhr, Riyadh, Rochester, Rome, Sacramento, Santiago, Santo Domingo, San Antonio, San Diego-Tijuana, San Francisco Bay Area, São Paulo, St. Louis, Sydney, Tallinn, Townsville, Tulsa, Tunis, Vancouver, Washington-Baltimore, Wellington, Winnipeg, Zurich |
To start us off, two wonderful cities from the United States:
Pittsburgh, PA City Population: 305,704 Metro Population: 2,447,393 http://i.imgur.com/aYOLO.jpg Las Vegas, NV Updated! Now much more accurate - 08/02/2012 City Population: 583,756 Metro Population: 1,951,269 http://i.imgur.com/59FOo.jpg Many more to come |
Cool, bring 'em on!
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Next up, a French juggernaut and a multicultural African paradise:
Paris, France City Population: 2,211,297 Metro Population: 11,899,544 Image updated - now oriented north, entire map overhauled to be more detailed and accurate http://i.imgur.com/0E0EL.jpg Cape Town, South Africa Metro Population: 3,497,097 http://i.imgur.com/kVsIw.jpg |
Hmmm, these are interesting, how did you get them all to the same scale? Id like to do a few. Its so sad that a city in the US can have a metro population of not even 2 million, yet cover nearly the same area as a city in Europe with a metro population of nearly 12 million. Could you imagine of Paris had the same density as Las Vegas, it would cover a good portion of northern France for crying out loud.
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Awesome! Please keep these coming!
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Do you have any Canadian cities planned? This is a very cool idea, thanks.
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_________________ Next up, a booming Canadian metropolis, and a city dubbed "The City of Sails" Calgary, AB City Population: 988,193 Metro Population: 1,230,248 http://i.imgur.com/dwsJX.jpg Auckland, New Zealand City Population: 1,354,900 Metro Population: 1,462,000 http://i.imgur.com/Sxd1u.jpg |
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With regard to any population figures - they are only from Wikipedia, so I am happy to change/update any figure with more recent or accurate sources.
___________ Up next, a wonderful sprawling Texan urban mass, and the first of many cities that required stitching due to it's immense size Houston, TX City Population: 2,099,451 Metro Population: 5,946,800 http://i.imgur.com/iJDTp.jpg |
Next, a modern Latin American metropolis, and the home of the Indy 500
Santiago de Chile Metro Population: 7,200,000 http://i.imgur.com/BSye3.jpg Indianapolis, IN City Population: 829,718 Metro Population: 1,756,241 http://i.imgur.com/ALIXj.jpg |
The Sacramento region has new imagery from 6/2011, nudge nudge. ;)
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________________ Up next, one of the highest major cities on Earth, and the self-proclaimed sports capital of the world Quito, Ecuador City Population: 2,697,698 Metro Population: 3,342,201 http://i.imgur.com/AtvXE.jpg Melbourne, Australia Metro Population: 4,077,036 http://i.imgur.com/pO2ji.jpg |
Cool maps!
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calgary is hardly the sprawlgary that its made up to be now is it.
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Next up, an old railway hub, and a city recently the victim of a catastrophic disaster
Buffalo, NY City Population: 261,310 Metro Population (includes Niagara): 1,300,000 http://i.imgur.com/MELyE.jpg Port-au-Prince, Haiti City Population: 704,776 (before earthquake) Metro Population: 1,728,100 (before earthquake?) http://i.imgur.com/8X16v.jpg |
Your map of Buffalo includes a couple Canadian cities, which, naturally, aren't a part of its metro area. Alternatively, you could just raise the cross-border urban area population to 1.3 million.
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Sweet, makes sense, done.
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i hope you don't mind an unsolicited contribution :D ... i think i got the scale right - but it's a little unclear what the logic is behind the coloring. i'm assuming developed areas, no farmland, no rural areas, no parkland, etc.
San Francisco Bay Area City Populations San Francisco 815,000 Oakland 409,000 San Jose 965,000 CSA Population (the entire CSA is not on the map) 7,468,000 it's tough to tell developed from not in some of the more wooded suburban areas - especially in the hills. link to map : http://www.431.org/misc/sfBayAreaj.jpg |
All of these maps are very cool.
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