Friday 2010-10-29 Dev. update and Discussion

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Firstly I loved seeing the cockpit in action and seeing all the dials jumping around, it really looks amazing!

And the screenshots are cool - but why can't I blow up them bloody germans in Buck House?

Anyway, I was looking at the London map and as I live in London just now I wanted to see where I live in comparison to what is shown in this screenie. So, I had the idea of getting a current map of London and trying to scale it so that it overlays reasonably accurately onto the SoW map posted.

I went to multimap and brought up London and chose the sattelite view as I figured the easiest way of aligning both maps was by using the Thames. So, I took a screenie, measured the height in pixels of the big curve just east of the Royal Vic Docks on both maps and adjusted the multimap screenie so it would fit roughly.

I then laid the multimap screenie on top of the SoW screenie and line em up and I found that I had done a reasonable job of scaling the curve in the river, but then I noticed that the further west you went the more out of sync the two maps were.

Now I know that the Thames has changed its course a little over the last 70-odd years but it wouldn't account for this amount of disparity. I also compared the locations of the royal parks and they were more or less the same size on each pic but were way off in alignment.

So, I wonder what was used to draw the map for the game? Did you use ordinance survey maps of the time, or aerial photographs from the time, or a combination?

Of course, the multimap pic could be wrong, and I could have mucked the scaling, but there just seems to be far too much of a difference between the two.

Anyway, what do you think: Here's my layered pic and I hope you can make out the course of both rivers for comparison: