Greater London Map

[brooksieb]

I haven't seen a map of London on Conquerclub, but I had an idea, with the 32 boroughs of Greater London Plus The City of London, but I understand you'd need more territories so big boroughs like Havering and Hillingdon could be divided, as could many areas south of the river. Then there could be the River Thames dividing the city and there'd be certain crossing points such as The Blackwall Tunnel from Tower Hamlets to Greenwich etc. Congestion charges could also be used as bonuses in certain territories.

I would be thinking the areas be split along these sorts of areas:

North London: Camden, Islington, Westminster, Haringey, Barnet and Enfield
East London: Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Newham, Waltham Forest, Barking & Dagenham and Redbridge.
South East London: Southwark, Lewisham, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and Croydon
South West London: Lambeth, Wandsworth, Merton, Sutton, Kingston and Richmond
West London: Kensington & Chelsea, Hammersmith, Hounslow, Brent, Ealing, Harrow and Hillingdon.

I don't know how to make maps, but hopefully someone could develop the idea, if there is a plan to make London on conquerclub already, please tell me, thanks.

[Marshal_Zhukov]

great idea brooksieb, i was thinking the lodon underground would be cool. but it would probably have to be seperate map as it would look weird if it wasnt Harry Beck's classic map

also in relation to your idea we could add a +1 bounus to either or both the palace westminster(parliament) and the city of lodon(financial heart)

[ender516]

If you do a search of the Melting Pot and/or the Recycling Bin, I'm sure that there have been attempts at maps of London, and especially its Underground system (whose map I believe is copyrighted and protected zealously). Still, your idea has merit, and I expect that the one of the Boys in Blue (the moderators of the Map Foundry) will likely move this topic to the Melting Pot, where map ideas begin their trip to the Final Forge.

[brooksieb]

If you do a search of the Melting Pot and/or the Recycling Bin, I'm sure that there have been attempts at maps of London, and especially its Underground system (whose map I believe is copyrighted and protected zealously). Still, your idea has merit, and I expect that the one of the Boys in Blue (the moderators of the Map Foundry) will likely move this topic to the Melting Pot, where map ideas begin their trip to the Final Forge.

I was more thinking the London Boroughs, like Hackney and Westminster, Surely they can't have copyright on them, even if they do you could have famous areas in the boroughs, like Hackney would be Hoxton and Tower Hamlets could be Bethnal Green or something.

[ender516]

The copyrighted map I was referring to was this one http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/standard-tube-map.gif. If you draw your own map of London, I doubt there can be a problem with using the normal place names.

[brooksieb]

Perhaps something like this. It could include parts of the home counties too, although I dont know how they would fit in.

[thenobodies80]

[Moved] to the Melting Pot.

[nagerous]

Brilliant idea, look forward to watching this get developed

[Teflon Kris]

How about each borough having associated gang alliances, a la War on Iraq style?

That would make the map unique vis-a-vis other city maps.

[nagerous]

I don't know if that would work, normal geographical would work better, you could make it so parts of central london have their own section in the bottom left though taking that idea from battle of iraq for the baghdad territories.

[ender516]

If you want a look at a map with gangs, review the Gang Crusades of Toronto map in the Recycling Bin.

[Pedronicus]

the london boroughs make for a shit map. I looked into a london map some time ago and found a more central area worked better using the thames as a decent way of making a barrier and using some of londons bridges to cross said barrier. The majority of people only know about central london. They won't be able to relate to place names like Havering and merton

[Ace Rimmer]

I refuse to support this map unless it has some of Pedro's artwork on it somewhere

[brooksieb]

I'm gonna enable a poll about this at some point.

[nagerous]

Personally options 1 and 2 are my preferences, if we are going to make a london map then we should stick to london, although I lived in essex 18 years of my life I don't think it deserves to be on this map.

[Teflon Kris]

Hi - I'd go for option 1 - Central London, but maybe a big Central London so that it includes Canary Wharf (which could have some kind of strategic significance along with 'The City'), Brixton and parts of Hackney and Camden (just cos they are interesting).

[nagerous]

Any update on this idea? A London map is something I'd definitely like to see.

[greenoaks]

2, 3 years ago there was an attempt at doing a london map and my thoughts haven't changed

i think it would be good to have one but it should be london, not the surrounding (unknown to the rest of the world) areas

[Rezonate]

I noted the london underground was mentioned, i think a map like that would rock could work out like this maybe

[tokle]

It's been tried before. The main issue is that that map is copyrighted. I might be wrong, but I seem to remember that someone contacted tfl about it, and they said no.

Edit: I found this: viewtopic.php?t=39993

[Rezonate]

ah right thats a shame, thanks for the info glad you said before i got my hopes up lol