Mapping Liberty City (Laying Out Liberty City)

[ron222]

As for Beer Garden - its game location imho quite exactly as its prototype in the real city (it is situated in the northwest part of Queens, not far from Triboro bridge):

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What's the logo at the building at this shot?

Similar to News Corporation logo?. Any more thoughts?

 

 

I'm a New Yorker so i know a lot. I live about 30 minutes away from Queens. I mostly go to brooklyn though.

 

New Yorker as well. Ridgewood.

First of all - my congratulations for you dudes - NY is the great city, i think, fine to live there . By the way, want to ask you what is the house at this shot. What is its real prototype?

and one more question - what is prototype of Majestic Hotel? Maybe you know ?

[grekster]

/edit:

This could just be an instance of reused textures, but it looks very similar:

Reused texture, you can tell by the geometry.

[FelipeVinhao]

I know people talked about this above, but I need a confirmation: the map on the official site has one bridge missing, heading to Bohan, right?

[TinCan]

 

/edit:

This could just be an instance of reused textures, but it looks very similar:

Reused texture, you can tell by the geometry.

I can see that one is longer than the other. What I meant was that it could be from the same complex/location, since there are more of these around the sugar-factory.

[TinCan]

 

I know people talked about this above, but I need a confirmation: the map on the official site has one bridge missing, heading to Bohan, right?

I believe this is it: http://media.gtanet.com/images/3487_gta_iv_trailer.jpg

 

you can see the bridge and the sugar-factory to the left in the shot if you watch the trailer.

A lot of the other small bridges are not marked on the map either.

[FelipeVinhao]

http://www.isarapix.com/pix42/1203087709.jpg

I know people talked about this above, but I need a confirmation: the map on the official site has one bridge missing, heading to Bohan, right?

I believe this is it: http://media.gtanet.com/images/3487_gta_iv_trailer.jpg

 

you can see the bridge and the sugar-factory to the left in the shot if you watch the trailer.

A lot of the other small bridges are not marked on the map either.

Yes, that was what I imagined. There are other bridges and tunnels missing.

[gta_wu-gangsta]

I know people talked about this above, but I need a confirmation: the map on the official site has one bridge missing, heading to Bohan, right?

yep that's right

[kipas]

I'm too lazy to use an editing tool, but do you guys see that skyscraper like building on the right side of the image where Dukes/Broker is.

I believe it's the citibank building in real life Queens.

on the left of the photo there seems to be smoke, is it a Nuclear Power Plant?

[gravs]

thats what i was thinkin

[gamefarter]

 

on the left of the photo there seems to be smoke, is it a Nuclear Power Plant?

 

I think it is an oil refinery plant of sorts. Owned and operated by none other than RON.

[ron222]

 

http://www.isarapix.com/pix42/1203087709.jpg

I know people talked about this above, but I need a confirmation: the map on the official site has one bridge missing, heading to Bohan, right?

I believe this is it: http://media.gtanet.com/images/3487_gta_iv_trailer.jpg

 

you can see the bridge and the sugar-factory to the left in the shot if you watch the trailer.

A lot of the other small bridges are not marked on the map either.

Yes, that was what I imagined. There are other bridges and tunnels missing.

Oh- i just have done the picture only to show how exactly location of Steinway beer garden in the game and the real one coincides, if we take location map from R main page - it's done , i believe, simplified and many features aren't shown at it. And one more moment, I don't understand why so big size of Alderney district and at the same time Dukes and Broker ones are so small, because game location based on NYC, but not NJ.

 

 

Edited February 16, 2008 by ron222

[BAMman]

sh*t man dis city gonna be huge man sh*t!

[rasomaso]

sh*t man ... man sh*t!

lol

[SCLASS]

I really do not understand the geography of this city !, the empire state in 'side' shots of Aloquin looks to be someway up the island, if nt halfway, then nearly that. In the 'sky' shot, showing the city at night, it is clearly in downtown, not midtown, what the fcuk is going on !

[gta_wu-gangsta]

I really do not understand the geography of this city !, the empire state in 'side' shots of Aloquin looks to be someway up the island, if nt halfway, then nearly that. In the 'sky' shot, showing the city at night, it is clearly in downtown, not midtown, what the fcuk is going on !

this only pretends

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Optical deception

[stingray.]

 

sh*t man ... man sh*t!

lol

If you go through his post history, each and every single post starts with the words "sh*t man".

 

Well let's all be glad that Alonquin looks bigger than it's real-life counterpart. I hope so.

Edited February 16, 2008 by stingray132

[Jimmarn]

No-one has tried laying out the city near the Broker Navy Yard?

Discovered by Ricksta. Over here

 

Here's a Pic.

 

Found something more of it.. seems like it's near Romans taxi place...

Don't know if someone have discovered this before me but, anyway here's a picture

 

Edited February 16, 2008 by Jimmarn

[rasomaso]

Ok so first I want to thank ron222 and another user (I don't know the name) who helped me to figure this one out.

The Middle Park

So assuming that on the first screenshot below is the Middle Park on the right, you can easily make out where the location takes place. Look:

 

 

The idea of it being a south-east corner of the Middle Park only supports the fact (pointed out by ron222 in the Central Park thread) that Plaza Hotel is in real NY also on the south-east corner of the Central Park. Look:

 

 

So to get back to locating the Middle Park, take a look at these shots:

 

 

^Here you can see another building that pops out by changing angle of the camera, it's almost the same place, but shot from a location 1 block south from the viewpoint of the first screenshot.

There is a yellow marked building, which I accidentaly identified while playing with a google map - it's a Trump Tower located near the real Central Park. Look:

 

 

Another view of the area is from the third trailer:

 

 

Below you can see the view from a recent video advert on Whizmobile, which helped me locate the Middle Park on the map:

 

 

^If you see the bridge leading to Alconquin behind the Trump tower, it's approximately on the same north/south level as the Middle Park probably is, so this leads me to thinking when I see a map with a majestic hotel number (8) that Majestic is around 1 block south from or even on the edge of the Middle Park, so it would be like this:

 

 

 

Btw I hope that you have a fast connection speed, sorry.

[donsalvatore]

^ What is the red building ?

[rasomaso]

^ What is the red building ?

Whoa? No congratulations? No cookies? Damn I gotta work harder next time lol!

 

Well I'm not from New York and I've never been in America so I dunno...

[Ricksta]

 

No-one has tried laying out the city near the Broker Navy Yard?

Discovered by Ricksta. Over here

 

Here's a Pic.

 

Found something more of it.. seems like it's near Romans taxi place...

Don't know if someone have discovered this before me but, anyway here's a picture

 

well... i was jsut about to complain that i posted that before

thanks for creds

Edited February 20, 2008 by Ricksta

[gravs]

rasomaso im soooo glad u posted this i was gonna make a new thread and say the same thing but I was too lazy, I noticed the same things u pointed out and its definately where ur sayin it is. It is kind of weird how its at the top but theres only so much room which is why the empire state building is so far down the map too.

[rasomaso]

 

rasomaso im soooo glad u posted this i was gonna make a new thread and say the same thing but I was too lazy, I noticed the same things u pointed out and its definately where ur sayin it is. It is kind of weird how its at the top but theres only so much room which is why the empire state building is so far down the map too.

thanx

[ron222]

2rasomaso-good work.

Several pictures:

Edited February 20, 2008 by ron222

[gta_wu-gangsta]

^ What is the red building ?

Whoa? No congratulations? No cookies? Damn I gotta work harder next time lol!

 

Well I'm not from New York and I've never been in America so I dunno...

REALLY dam good job done

[TinCan]

More new and old screens:

/edit: updated

Edited February 22, 2008 by TinCan

[Big_Mitch_Baker]

I think it is an oil refinery plant of sorts. Owned and operated by none other than RON.

 

 

Globeoil by the looks of it, wonder if some Eco-nuts will hire Niko to blow it up.

[agent17]

 

Francis International Airport (FIA) obviously resembles the John F. Kennedy Airpot (JFK).

 

 

 

[TinCan]

Two shots probably from the same location:

You can see the cone behind Niko, and the raised road in the background both look the same.

 

The building seen through Brucies door.

Building 127 / woodfellas, probably viewed from the other side. You can see the broker bridge behind it.

Not sure if this is new, but it's new to me

 

Locating the shot where Niko wears a tie and the buildings beside him:

 

/edit2: updated again

Edited February 23, 2008 by TinCan

[Magic_Al]

 

Francis International Airport (FIA) obviously resembles the John F. Kennedy Airpot (JFK).

Excellent. I don't think they would've put an LAX-lookalike in the old Liberty City if they'd known how big the GTA universe would become.