Town Raster Map & Super Zoom With FM8

[Redrobes]

Mark, what I was trying to ask is whether you can now take the whole city that you have here and use that whole map as a referenced item within a bigger map like a region. Can you, for example, place two of these cities down or alternatively, place this city down, place another similar city down and place some towns down as well. Then at each place still zoom in down to the house. Can you pick up the whole city and move it as a group.

CWBP = Cooperative World Building Project and the forum link is here:
http://www.cartographersguild.com/fo...ilding-Project

It has a wiki here:
http://cwbp.cartographersguild.com/i...itle=Main_Page

Its a world that has a section or two divided up into tiles where we collectively map a tile each. Then within some of those tiles we have mapped regions and cities. The region of Ansium is one such place with about 30 tiles laid out like this:
http://cwbp.cartographersguild.com/i...oject_Overview

Some of the tiles have a lot of maps that have different scales so that you can find places where there are bitmaps from world down to battle map scale.
Here is Ansium video showing that using my app. We both seem to have the same goals.
http://http://www.viewing.ltd.uk/Tem...gDale_x264.avi

I cant definitively speak for CC3 either but I think in a later edition it can do bitmaps but I am not aware that it does LOD's (Level of Detail). You are right that Dundjinni has a fixed bitmap scale.

I like what you have done as its what I was after when I wrote mine.

[Mark Oliva]

Mark, what I was trying to ask is whether you can now take the whole city that you have here and use that whole map as a referenced item within a bigger map like a region. Can you, for example, place two of these cities down or alternatively, place this city down, place another similar city down and place some towns down as well. Then at each place still zoom in down to the house. Can you pick up the whole city and move it as a group.

Yes, but in some respects perhaps not using the mechanics you might have in mind. See Joe Frazier's posting below and my answer for more info.

CWBP = Cooperative World Building Project and the forum link is here:
http://www.cartographersguild.com/fo...ilding-Project

It has a wiki here:
http://cwbp.cartographersguild.com/i...itle=Main_Page

Thanks very, very much for this heads up. I was totally unaware of this project. I already spent some time there today. I have two projects with tight deadlines over the next two weeks, but when they're finished, I will take an extended look at this.

I cant definitively speak for CC3 either but I think in a later edition it can do bitmaps.

Oh yes. CC3 definitely can do bitmaps and beautifully. The problem at the time when I still used it (and perhaps not anymore) was that the beautiful bitmaps pixilated on tight zooms.

Again, many thanks!