Official Geoscape Map Corrections and Additions.

[Sathra]

Creating this thread for posting of correct co-ordinates and names of various cities, as well as any border corrections.

Don't derail it or start random discussions about minutiae. Try to keep it focused.

[anotherdevil]

Not being a dick, but what is 'minutiae'?

Looking forward to a more fleshed out world map soon!

[iamkyon]

Not being a dick, but what is 'minutiae'?

It's Latin for "insignificant details" or something to that effect.

On a more topical note: Windhoek is the capital city of Namibia, not Nigeria.

[Sathra]

Yes, arguing about what minutiae means is minutiae.

[NeutralGround]

Yes, arguing about what minutiae means is minutiae.

Comedy Gold.

There is a 'small' matter(just ask most mainland Australians) of the unfortunate exclusion of Tasmania from the Australian Continent:

Also, as as the other state capitals of Australia are present the other missing one is Darwin, Northern Territory. Its mostly desert out there, however it does contain on of Australias largest Airforce bases, so could be considered thematically important to the Xenonauts Geoscape - unlike tasmania, but I guess its only fair they are included too.

[anotherdevil]

ha ha and now darwin has one of America's bases too!

By that map it looks like Christchurch is off too... will have to change that. And no Auckland? It only has half our population...

[sectoid]

i noticed that whole Philippines and Sulawesi as well as Micronesia is missing.

any plans to bring them back?

to me, is ok to omit Micronesia, but Philippines and Sulawesi are very prominant lands on earth, if xcom 1 & 2 were able to represent these 2 lands with polygon-shaped borders decade ago, i think Xenonaut will have weak excuse to omit them today...

hey, we might intercepted and shoot down UFOs to crash on these 2 lands, ya' know~

[Turkey]

There is a 'small' matter(just ask most mainland Australians) of the unfortunate exclusion of Tasmania from the Australian Continent

Another minor thing, but is Brisbane a few 100k's further south on that map than it should be?

[Sathra]

If possible, please try to include the Geoscape map co-ordinates for cities if you can. It would be a great help to Chris and the team (and save them time as well).

[IceVamp]

Got to represent!

Europe;

X 4335 Y 0681 - Oslo

X 4216 Y 0655 - Bergen

X 4331 Y 0602 - Trondheim

X 4513 Y 0460 - Tromsø

X 4651 Y 0437 - Hammerfest (Northernmost town in the world! Or so we like to think!)

[Overlord]

Berlin is missing.

[Gorlom]

Do you have the coordinates?

and listing all the capitals in europe would make it a bit crowded would it not? Maybe Rome Moscow and either London or Paris? and skip the rest unkess really zoomed in?

[IceVamp]

Well yes, zooming in to see them is a given. But I don't think one should skip major cities like that. Millions of people live in them after all. I reckon it's a quick thing to input a spot and a name, and as long as it is, I'd rather have as much detail as possible really. I want to know the name of the city/village I'm rampaging through!

[IceVamp]

Aditional cities, using the cities.xml as a template. Checking locations and populations take a while! Phew!

I have listed all capitals at the standard zoom levels, but others are a bit further in. Unless there were loads of space. I think this is around 26 cities. So about 50% more! Yay.

Posting these directly into the cities file will not work however. Dunno why, I'm too tired to investigate, though I suspect there has to be strings for each and every city. Hold on.. yep.

So if you want these in your game NOW, you still have some work to do.

<City>

<Name>Oslo</Name>

<Country>Norway</Country>

<Population>611491</Population>

<Location>4335,0681</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.5</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.7</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Bergen</Name>

<Country>Norway</Country>

<Population>264100</Population>

<Location>4216,0655</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.7</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.8</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Trondheim</Name>

<Country>Norway</Country>

<Population>176008</Population>

<Location>4331,0602</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.7</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.8</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Tromsø</Name>

<Country>Norway</Country>

<Population>68839</Population>

<Location>4513,0460</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.7</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.8</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Hammerfest</Name>

<Country>Norway</Country>

<Population>9261</Population>

<Location>4651,0437</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.7</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.8</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Alta</Name>

<Country>Norway</Country>

<Population>19103</Population>

<Location>4623,0456</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.7</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.8</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Gothenburg</Name>

<Country>Sweden</Country>

<Population>519399</Population>

<Location>4356,0720</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.7</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.8</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Stockholm</Name>

<Country>Sweden</Country>

<Population>861010</Population>

<Location>4491,0683</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.5</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.7</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Copenhagen</Name>

<Country>Denmark</Country>

<Population>548443</Population>

<Location>4363,0768</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.5</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.7</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Hamburg</Name>

<Country>Germany</Country>

<Population>1792129</Population>

<Location>4300,0815</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.7</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.8</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Berlin</Name>

<Country>Germany</Country>

<Population>3479740</Population>

<Location>4394,0815</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.5</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.7</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Amsterdam</Name>

<Country>Netherlands</Country>

<Population>780152</Population>

<Location>4199,0835</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.5</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.7</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Warsaw</Name>

<Country>Poland</Country>

<Population>1716855</Population>

<Location>4558,0847</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.5</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.7</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Prague</Name>

<Country>Czech Republic</Country>

<Population>1290846</Population>

<Location>4406,0897</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.5</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.7</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Rome</Name>

<Country>Italy</Country>

<Population>2761477</Population>

<Location>4368,1080</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.5</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.7</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Paris</Name>

<Country>France</Country>

<Population>2211297</Population>

<Location>4131,0922</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.5</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.7</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Helsinki</Name>

<Country>Finland</Country>

<Population>588941</Population>

<Location>4638,0663</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.5</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.7</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Tallinn</Name>

<Country>Estonia</Country>

<Population>416144</Population>

<Location>4642,0687</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.5</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.7</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Dublin</Name>

<Country>Ireland</Country>

<Population>525383</Population>

<Location>3939,0822</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.7</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.8</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Belfast</Name>

<Country>Northern Ireland</Country>

<Population>267500</Population>

<Location>3951,0795</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.7</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.8</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Glasgow</Name>

<Country>Scotland</Country>

<Population>592820</Population>

<Location>3981,0766</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.7</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.8</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Reykjavik</Name>

<Country>Iceland</Country>

<Population>119108</Population>

<Location>3588,0572</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.5</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.7</DetailDistance>

</City>

North America

<City>

<Name>Washington D.C. </Name>

<Country>United States</Country>

<Population>617996</Population>

<Location>2335,1156</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.5</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.7</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Miami</Name>

<Country>United States</Country>

<Population>399457</Population>

<Location>2254,1449</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.5</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.7</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>New Orleans</Name>

<Country>United States</Country>

<Population>343829</Population>

<Location>2044,1364</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.5</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.7</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Chicago</Name>

<Country>United States</Country>

<Population>2695598</Population>

<Location>2086,1078</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.5</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.7</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Montreal</Name>

<Country>Canada</Country>

<Population>1620693</Population>

<Location>2412,0999</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.5</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.7</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Quebec</Name>

<Country>Canada</Country>

<Population>8015000</Population>

<Location>2477,0958</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.7</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.8</DetailDistance>

</City>

Central America

<City>

<Name>Cancun</Name>

<Country>Mexico</Country>

<Population>628306</Population>

<Location>2103,1554</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.7</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.8</DetailDistance>

</City>

Indochina

<City>

<Name>Nagasaki</Name>

<Country>Japan</Country>

<Population>446007</Population>

<Location>7040,1287</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.7</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.8</DetailDistance>

</City>

<City>

<Name>Hong Kong</Name>

<Country>China</Country>

<Population>7061200</Population>

<Location>6697,1515</Location>

<PopupDistance>0.5</PopupDistance>

<DetailDistance>0.7</DetailDistance>

</City>

Edited January 11, 2012 by IceVamp

[anotherdevil]

are these 1979 population levels? =p

[IceVamp]

are these 1979 population levels? =p

[Expletive]!!!!

To be fair, it was four in the morning when I was doing this. >.<

Worst part, I even considered the date, because I saw the soviet union be so far west. Damn.

[Sathra]

My questions is: Does it even matter? And how accurate should the population numbers be? Exact, nearest hundred, nearest thousand?

[Gorlom]

Obviously it should be accurate down to the newborn babies each ingame month! Someone has alot of research to do! Hop to it!

[anotherdevil]

I for instance wouldn't care, but I bet that someone out there would...

Edited January 11, 2012 by anotherdevil
spelling is not a strong point of mine

[IceVamp]

But where in game do you see the population exactly?

[anotherdevil]

I'm not sure... Maybe during terror missions? Or maybe if the aliens do enough 'damage' to cities they will eventually blink out...?

[IceVamp]

Ohh, that would be quite cool actually.

[Sathra]

You see the population on the geoscape, and I guess it drops while a terror mission is active? (they have casualty counters on the mission, along with a timer).

If you fail a terror mission though, or don't reach it before the timer runs out, the city is nuked and probably disappears from the map.

[Chris]

The population line is probably not going to be in the final game, I'm afraid (sorry for wasting your research). There's too much information there if it is, and the screen ends up too cluttered.

[IceVamp]

The population line is probably not going to be in the final game, I'm afraid (sorry for wasting your research). There's too much information there if it is, and the screen ends up too cluttered.

Well, at least I won't have to research it again to find the 1979 populations. I still have to summon the courage to enter strings for all of these, to test them, and I'm not sure how one goes about it.