Mapping Los Santos! Building/landmark analysis

[Barcasam7]

Don't know if anyone has posted this yet.

At the bottom left you can see the LA forum or some stadium near the bridge.

Also I think Trevor is driving on a golf course in this image, above his right wheel you can see sand which looks like a bunker.

[FunGt]

To be honest alot of the smog you're seeing is going to be a tool for rockstar to hide the draw distance limitations with the current hardware they are working on

Sadly true.

[malmoutte]

 

Just made this :

 

 

 

 

So the map clearly see like that now :

 

....

 

In fact, if we look at the screen of Mt chiliad, it could be like that

 

 

Edited November 16, 2012 by malmoutte

[TenEightyOne]

Dude, resize that image, it's not like it's a hi-def photo! EDIT: That's better

 

On the subject of airports; there's an airport below the jeep in the scene where it's driven out of the cargo plane. Presumably it's not LAX, maybe it's the base?

 

My guess is that that's where you land as you parachute down.

[Fido_le_muet]

I found that building on the highway when Franklin steals the Audi R8.

It's right where it should be IRL, just along the Pacific Coast Highway.

[koeklin]

Sorry Fido, alreday fond ...

 

Nothing new in my image. I only post because I love this kind of tiny details (parapet and spyglass of Griffith Observatory and view to Downtown in the smog)

 

Edited November 16, 2012 by koeklin

[Los Santos APB]

 

I found that building on the highway when Franklin steals the Audi R8.

It's right where it should be IRL, just along the Pacific Coast Highway.

 

Nailed it! Nice.

[artificialguy]

Nothing new in my image. I only post because I love this kind of tiny details (parapet and spyglass of Griffith Observatory and view to Downtown in the smog)

Unfortunetly this show how small LS will be in compare to RL.

[Freezer89]

Nothing new in my image. I only post because I love this kind of tiny details (parapet and spyglass of Griffith Observatory and view to Downtown in the smog)

Unfortunetly this show how small LS will be in compare to RL.

Do you really want a 1:1 scale of LA in the game? It would be damn annoying and boring to drive endless hours from one to another point. Especially in missions. Nope, it's just fine as it is now. Heck, it could have even a bit smaller in my opinion. It's already enormous from my point of view.

 

Anyways I really like their attention to details.

[Fido_le_muet]

Sorry Fido, alreday fond ...

My bad then.

I must have missed the post about it.

It was an easy find anyway^^

[artificialguy]

is it  LS in yellow?

 

 

 

Do you guys think there is a chance this is Compton/Woodley Airfield?

 

Fits with all the villas on the side of the Tarmac

 

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.sear...inct_entry=true

That is a good guess but based off of the topography and the skyline on the left I would say it would be based off of Bob Hope Airport "Burbank KBUR" on the other side (north)of the Hollywood Hills.

 

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=LAX&hl=en&ll...947505&t=h&z=14

 

Using that map if you go to the highway north of runway 15 and are streetview you would have to look southeast to see the skyline. I don't believe you can in real life but remember that R* woudl have scaled things down to where the skyline could be visible.

 

http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1212/00067AD.PDF

 

That is an airport diagram, and Trevor would be on Taxiway Alpha taxiing towards runway 15.

I'm just thinking that we haven't seen any movie studios so far. Maybe they are hidden behind Vinewood Hills in some rendition of Burbank?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Burbankeast.jpg

[Shaun_Walker]

This freeway overpass appears to be the same one to the left of the skydiver in this screenshot based on the location of the satellite dishes, located just under the skydiver. The wind farm would be hidden under the clouds across the freeway from the dish array.

[suavea]

 

This freeway overpass appears to be the same one to the left of the skydiver in this screenshot based on the location of the satellite dishes, located just under the skydiver. The wind farm would be hidden under the clouds across the freeway from the dish array.

 

We knew that 20 pages ago.

[idlewood]

I'm bored at the moment so I've made a little sketch: https://plus.google.com/photos/117017524200...CKGC_vrP7dLD6wE

 

 

[YukiEiri]

I'm bored at the moment so I've made a little sketch: https://plus.google.com/photos/117017524200...CKGC_vrP7dLD6wE

Not bad, not bad!

 

[Mrthingus]

 

Nothing new in my image. I only post because I love this kind of tiny details (parapet and spyglass of Griffith Observatory and view to Downtown in the smog)

Unfortunetly this show how small LS will be in compare to RL.

Do you really want a 1:1 scale of LA in the game? It would be damn annoying and boring to drive endless hours from one to another point. Especially in missions. Nope, it's just fine as it is now. Heck, it could have even a bit smaller in my opinion. It's already enormous from my point of view.

 

Anyways I really like their attention to details.

L.A. Noire, which is a small, thin stretch of city reaching from Hollywood Blvd. to the river takes forever to drive through. I estimate that LAN is about 1/10th of 1947 LA and maybe 1/15th of modern LA. I'm not sure how much the city has grown over the past 60 years, but it was still gigantic in 1947.

A full 1:1 replica of LA would be boring, which is why LAN only used the most "interesting" part of the city, the Downtown and Hollywood. GTA V compresses LA down to the size of a large suburb and will maybe be around 10% of the actual city. Although it will be small and probably not larger than Liberty City, it will feel big and immersive and once the game comes out you'll have forgotten.

I don't understand all this whining of LS being small. It was tiny in San Andreas and still people loved that. Besides, there's a whole desert out there that we've only seen glimpses of. Who knows how big the map even is.

 

tl;dr - Los Santos is all the interesting parts of LA squished together with a huge desert behind it.

[Freezer89]

Exactly, and it's not only a desert, but also mountains, forests, seas, rivers, hills, farmlands, etc.. and most of all, other towns! Los Santos plus the other small villages/towns together will be a lot of larger than LC.

 

Now that I mentioned the countryside, what happened to the other mapping thread dedictaded to the countryside? Or will this topic suffice for that? Should be renamed then though.. not that it would be a big deal.

[BoolCaX]

[2big2bite]

 

The plane part where we see something above the right wing, most likely are from this airport with two runways:

 

Most likely though on the left side of the runway, then we see whats behind that picture when he jumps out, or in front of the cargo plane.

[zzzsyk]

Exactly, and it's not only a desert, but also mountains, forests, seas, rivers, hills, farmlands, etc.. and most of all, other towns! Los Santos plus the other small villages/towns together will be a lot of larger than LC.

 

Now that I mentioned the countryside, what happened to the other mapping thread dedictaded to the countryside? Or will this topic suffice for that? Should be renamed then though.. not that it would be a big deal.

I agree with you, the thread dedicated to the countryside is pretty much dead, it's not in constatnt evolution like this one.

This thread isnt exclusive for the city anymore, it covers the countryside aswell, so let's rename it!

Something like: Mapping GTA V: Los Santos & Countryside analysis.

[zZzRonaldinhozZz]

 

The plane part where we see something above the right wing, most likely are from this airport with two runways:

 

Most likely though on the left side of the runway, then we see whats behind that picture when he jumps out, or in front of the cargo plane.

Good find.

 

Off Topic: Trevor got some funky hair cut lool!

[jbte]

Panorama from trailer video, if you find useful feel free to use it without credits...

 

Click here for better resolution

 

Also did this one few days ago...

 

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[chr0ne]

 

Panorama from trailer video, if you find useful feel free to use it without credits...

 

Click here for better resolution

 

Also did this one few days ago...

 

click on image for better resolution...

WOW, nice job

Little low quality, but it looks awesome

What did you use to make the pics?

[DS 17]

Panorama from trailer video, if you find useful feel free to use it without credits...

 

Click here for better resolution

 

Also did this one few days ago...

 

click on image for better resolution...

WOW, nice job

Little low quality, but it looks awesome

What did you use to make the pics?

The mountain in the foreground is looking very huge. So maybe this is Mt. Chilliad as it will be the biggest one in the game.

[kesta195]

I wouldn't worry about any Compton/Ganton like area, it looks like it's been moved from South LA to East LS, as it was in San Andreas, although SA's LA geography is f*cked and nothing to go on

[Pillemannscharo]

 

The plane part where we see something above the right wing, most likely are from this airport with two runways:

 

Most likely though on the left side of the runway, then we see whats behind that picture when he jumps out, or in front of the cargo plane.

Good find.

 

Off Topic: Trevor got some funky hair cut lool!

Very good found indeed. This is most probably an airfield. The strukture we see behind one engine of the plane in the background could then be a bridge of an area of L.S. we haven't seen by now. Far more to the right, regarding the view over L.S. from the Observatory.

[Raavi]

 

Catalina Airport (AVX), Catalina Island, CA

Edited November 17, 2012 by Raavi

[VincentPericant]

 

Just made this :

 

 

 

 

So the map clearly see like that now :

 

....

 

In fact, if we look at the screen of Mt chiliad, it could be like that

 

 

I think if you rotate your image 90 degrees clockwise it might be more accurate

 

And then move things round a bit

[doubled]

New screens:

[Raavi]

 

 

Santa Catalina Airport?

 

 

 

 

This too iconic of a building to be something else

Edited November 16, 2012 by Raavi