In a fit of insanity, I worked up the beginning of what I imagine to be a five player Mesoamerica map tonight (with the rest of the CivProject rules intact). I'm amazed at the lack of good reference material online. Does anybody have any suggestions on where to get good hydrology/volcanic/geology maps?

Anyway, you can look at what I've got put together so far at

http://broggs.org/~civmoves/mexicomap.png

It is obviously still missing city sites (I've got pretty good reference for that), volcano's (got to get the one near Mexico City and Volcan Agua at the very least), flood plains, boundries, etc.

I did manage to find the old '80s CIA map data, which is vector information for coastlines, lakes, rives, and political boundries for the entire world. I hacked together a converter to SVG format. If anybody is interested in any of it, let me know. (It was not used in making the map posted above.

Jeff

The graphic is wonderful.
Maybe you should mix this map with some of the infos you get from the SVG file of the same area.

Raffaele
Goblin's lair

Thank you

Looking at the map, the weak points are the rivers, and elevation differences. Now, I can improve the rivers using the data, but I haven't found good vectored elevation data anywhere yet. Really, I guess the ideal would be something like the satelite data available from NASA for Mars, do a countour of it, then hand tweak...
I'll have to do some looking. Really the biggest problem is getting everything into the same projection so everything fits together. Since I used to work on GIS systems, I do understand how nasty that stuff can be.

Velusion, Martin, what sources have you guys used for the 18 player map? Perhaps if this map goes well, we could add it to the scenario book. I've got to get some stats on cities sites per player, population availability, etc to start working that stuff up too, I guess

Jeff

The terrain height data can be found in the web page of the USGS

http://edc.usgs.gov/geodata/

For more detailed data maybe you should ask for the GTOPO30

(It's the one I apply in the meteorological model I use)

You are a beautiful man
I've been out of the GIS business to remember any of this stuff.

Thanks. I'll look into it this evening.

Jeff