Mapping Los Santos! Building/landmark analysis

[JonRenemy]

On something computer generated its totally down to whether it was actually drawn in on screen in the first place.

 

 

 

What he said ^^^^

 

I think you guys have been watching too many episodes of CSI. With the exception of reducing a limited amount of motion blur, you can't "unblur" a picture. You especially can't unblur bokeh, which is what you're seeing on that sign that some people seem to think says Las Venturas or whatever. If something is out of focus then it's out of focus. Unless you have a Lytro camera.

 

And as for pulling more info out of the shadows or whatever, how far do you think you can really stretch a compressed 8bit jpeg?!?

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/15365...ption-to-use-it

 

Mind you, what Adobe are pulling off with this new plugin is beyond what I thought was possible.

I cannot wait to get my hands on this.

[cerenn]

 

Oh, duh. It looked like a cloud.

Oh... now I see it. What is that? You have Photoshop, right? @cerenn That means there's ALOT more of the map we haven't seen yet.

Not sure. Perhaps there's an invisible boundary before the map ends or a certain depth you can't reach when going underwater. The key is "underwater area", not just water.

[Musa98]

Oh, duh. It looked like a cloud.

Oh... now I see it. What is that? You have Photoshop, right? @cerenn That means there's ALOT more of the map we haven't seen yet.

Not sure. Perhaps there's an invisible boundary before the map ends or a certain depth you can't reach when going underwater. The key is "underwater area", not just water.

I think of Santa Catalina Island appear further and donot would be so easy notary

[Musa98]

idk if this question is successfully done

happens to

log beach?

 

 

[Fail_At_GTA]

I'm guessing there are parts of the map you can't access or go underwater.

Limiting the areas you can go in would completely destroy the freedom of the game. This isn't RDR, it has planes so you can go anywhere.

[lazloisdavrock]

 

thats your map outline

 

 

[CACorey]

The blueprint suggests a big no on Long Beach being to the east of Los Santos. It looks like a big ship, perhaps like the Queen Mary, sitting in the ports but nothing more.

[Musa98]

The blueprint suggests a big no on Long Beach being to the east of Los Santos. It looks like a big ship, perhaps like the Queen Mary, sitting in the ports but nothing more.

Thanks for helping me with my question but

long beach

is very important in

long beach

so it is hard to believe that in scrambled shown may los santos

[Cysiek]

I think this should help, ChatterBoxFM

Behind US Bank is Marina Del Sol

 

Edited August 1, 2013 by Cysiek

[_Kindled_]

 

I think this should help, ChatterBoxFM

Behind US Bank is Marina Del Sol

 

http://screenv.com/upload/51f9c374ad9a9.png

Where? Can you draw a red line.

[ChatterBoxFM]

Is it part of the airport?

 

[Musa98]

Is it part of the airport?

 

yes my friend

[_Kindled_]

Is it part of the airport?

 

yes my friend

No, my friend. The airport is to the right.

[Mnxanr]

No, my friend. The airport is to the right.

This is how I see it.

 

http://i.imgur.com/B6xI9WM.jpg

[no_snacks]

 

Is it part of the airport?

 

 

yes my friend

No, my friend. The airport is to the right.

Seriously? It's the SE portion of the airport.

[no_snacks]

Pink lines = field of view.

Yellow circle = the "mysterious" bit of land.

 

[ChatterBoxFM]

I think it's farther than that area on the map.

EDIT: ^ beat me to it.

[vLx]

Is the tower we see on the left..

 

 

..is the same here?

 

[no_snacks]

 

Is the tower we see on the left.

 

..is the same here?

Looks like the same one to me. Same sort of structure at the top & half way down.

[zombie elvis]

If you go back to the Kokatu preview, they said "GTA V is 3.5x the size of that of Rockstar's sprawling 2010 western Red Dead Redemption" and "five times bigger if you count the new game's underwater areas." That means total area is composed of 70% percent land and 30% underwater. With latest version of the blueprint map, I tried measuring the ratio of land to water using a pixel count in GIMP. It comes out to about 55% land and 45% water (including the Alamo Sea).

 

I'm guessing there are parts of the map you can't access or go underwater. Either that, or one or more islands are missing from the latest blueprint map.

You can dive beyond the border of the map in San Andreas, it's just boring flat seabed, they might not count the whole rectangle as the explorable part, there could be empty flat deep sea parts within the rectangle too.

[gtafanny]

cannot unsee, lol

[Fido_le_muet]

WARNING ! Excessive long post !

 

Hey guys.

 

So on topic, Angeleno from the french forum GTANF found the following buildings :

http://www.gtanf.com/forums/index.php?show...=11962&p=393681

 

Mesa Vista Motel in Raton, New Mexico :

 

Roy's Motel & Cafe in Amboy, California :

 

Glancy Motor Hotel in Clinton, Oklahoma :

 

Bob's Liquor in Saint Louis, Missouri :

 

 

Now I know what you're thinking : "That's cool but most of these are pretty far from California!"

I know they are but they all have something in common : they are all located on Route 66.

Well to be absolutely exact, Raton, NM isn't on Route 66 but you have to admit the sign and office look spot on.

 

So all of this would mean that R* wasn't focused only on SoCal and they picked a few buildings here and there

along Route 66, up to Missouri.

Now that's not a big deal since most of those are just there to put some life along a deserted countryside road : Route 68.

 

Tell me what you think about this guys.

Edited August 1, 2013 by Fido_le_muet

[no_snacks]

 

WARNING ! Excessive long post !

 

Hey guys.

 

So on topic, Angeleno from the french forum GTANF found the following buildings :

 

Mesa Vista Motel in Raton, New Mexico :

 

Roy's Motel & Cafe in Amboy, California :

 

Glancy Motor Hotel in Clinton, Oklahoma :

 

Bob's Liquor in Saint Louis, Missouri :

 

Now I know what you're thinking : "That's cool but most of these are pretty far from California!"

I know they are but they all have something in common : they are all located on Route 66.

Well to be absolutely exact, Raton, NM isn't on Route 66 but you have to admit the sign and office look spot on.

 

So all of this would mean that R* wasn't focused only on SoCal and they picked a few buildings here and there

along Route 66, up to Missouri.

Now that's not a big deal since most of those are just there to put some life along a deserted countryside road : Route 68.

 

Tell me what you think about this guys.

Nice work.

I have a suspicion that some of the signs might be generic signs for similar businesses. What I mean is, it may be possible that several hotels or roadside cafes may use similar signs made by a major supplier. The fact that most of these finds are on Route 66 ties them together nicely though.

[philley]

@Fido_le_muet: Very good eye, very good finds!!!!!!!!!!

 

Now I personally think or hope that the map is bigger than we expect it to be!

[zombie elvis]

Nice finds, although the Bob's liquor store isn't on GTA's Route 68. But they're clearly using influences beyond L.A, even if they just built designs based on Google searches for route 66.

[PHOENIXZERO]

 

WARNING ! Excessive long post !

 

Hey guys.

 

So on topic, Angeleno from the french forum GTANF found the following buildings :

http://www.gtanf.com/forums/index.php?show...=11962&p=393681

 

Mesa Vista Motel in Raton, New Mexico :

 

 

Roy's Motel & Cafe in Amboy, California :

Glancy Motor Hotel in Clinton, Oklahoma :

Bob's Liquor in Saint Louis, Missouri :

 

Now I know what you're thinking : "That's cool but most of these are pretty far from California!"

I know they are but they all have something in common : they are all located on Route 66.

Well to be absolutely exact, Raton, NM isn't on Route 66 but you have to admit the sign and office look spot on.

 

So all of this would mean that R* wasn't focused only on SoCal and they picked a few buildings here and there

along Route 66, up to Missouri.

Now that's not a big deal since most of those are just there to put some life along a deserted countryside road : Route 68.

 

Tell me what you think about this guys.

Those designs were fairly common back then, especially along Route 66 because for many years that was the primary roadway out west. I've seen some of them before but not at those locations.

Edited August 1, 2013 by PHOENIXZERO

[epicluca]

WARNING ! Excessive long post !

 

Hey guys.

 

So on topic, Angeleno from the french forum GTANF found the following buildings :

 

Mesa Vista Motel in Raton, New Mexico :

 

Roy's Motel & Cafe in Amboy, California :

 

Glancy Motor Hotel in Clinton, Oklahoma :

 

Bob's Liquor in Saint Louis, Missouri :

 

Now I know what you're thinking : "That's cool but most of these are pretty far from California!"

I know they are but they all have something in common : they are all located on Route 66.

Well to be absolutely exact, Raton, NM isn't on Route 66 but you have to admit the sign and office look spot on.

 

So all of this would mean that R* wasn't focused only on SoCal and they picked a few buildings here and there

along Route 66, up to Missouri.

Now that's not a big deal since most of those are just there to put some life along a deserted countryside road : Route 68.

 

Tell me what you think about this guys.

Nice work.

I have a suspicion that some of the signs might be generic signs for similar businesses. What I mean is, it may be possible that several hotels or roadside cafes may use similar signs made by a major supplier. The fact that most of these finds are on Route 66 ties them together nicely though.

missouri confirmed

oklahoma confirmed

new mexico conirmed

 

[Ignaz]

WARNING ! Excessive long post !

 

Hey guys.

 

So on topic, Angeleno from the french forum GTANF found the following buildings :

 

Mesa Vista Motel in Raton, New Mexico :

 

Roy's Motel & Cafe in Amboy, California :

 

Glancy Motor Hotel in Clinton, Oklahoma :

 

Bob's Liquor in Saint Louis, Missouri :

 

Now I know what you're thinking : "That's cool but most of these are pretty far from California!"

I know they are but they all have something in common : they are all located on Route 66.

Well to be absolutely exact, Raton, NM isn't on Route 66 but you have to admit the sign and office look spot on.

 

So all of this would mean that R* wasn't focused only on SoCal and they picked a few buildings here and there

along Route 66, up to Missouri.

Now that's not a big deal since most of those are just there to put some life along a deserted countryside road : Route 68.

 

Tell me what you think about this guys.

Nice work.

I have a suspicion that some of the signs might be generic signs for similar businesses. What I mean is, it may be possible that several hotels or roadside cafes may use similar signs made by a major supplier. The fact that most of these finds are on Route 66 ties them together nicely though.

missouri confirmed

oklahoma confirmed

new mexico conirmed

Cool now we dont only can count san diego on map. I just wait for LibertyCity and Analheim included the Gloryholeisland.

[staticguy]

WARNING ! Excessive long post !

 

Hey guys.

 

So on topic, Angeleno from the french forum GTANF found the following buildings :

 

 

Now I know what you're thinking : "That's cool but most of these are pretty far from California!"

I know they are but they all have something in common : they are all located on Route 66.

Well to be absolutely exact, Raton, NM isn't on Route 66 but you have to admit the sign and office look spot on.

 

So all of this would mean that R* wasn't focused only on SoCal and they picked a few buildings here and there

along Route 66, up to Missouri.

Now that's not a big deal since most of those are just there to put some life along a deserted countryside road : Route 68.

 

Tell me what you think about this guys.

it's an amazing discovery!

[orcelord]

 

WARNING ! Excessive long post !

 

Hey guys.

 

So on topic, Angeleno from the french forum GTANF found the following buildings :

 

Mesa Vista Motel in Raton, New Mexico :

 

Roy's Motel & Cafe in Amboy, California :

 

Glancy Motor Hotel in Clinton, Oklahoma :

 

Bob's Liquor in Saint Louis, Missouri :

 

Now I know what you're thinking : "That's cool but most of these are pretty far from California!"

I know they are but they all have something in common : they are all located on Route 66.

Well to be absolutely exact, Raton, NM isn't on Route 66 but you have to admit the sign and office look spot on.

 

So all of this would mean that R* wasn't focused only on SoCal and they picked a few buildings here and there

along Route 66, up to Missouri.

Now that's not a big deal since most of those are just there to put some life along a deserted countryside road : Route 68.

 

Tell me what you think about this guys.

Nice work.

I have a suspicion that some of the signs might be generic signs for similar businesses. What I mean is, it may be possible that several hotels or roadside cafes may use similar signs made by a major supplier. The fact that most of these finds are on Route 66 ties them together nicely though.

missouri confirmed

oklahoma confirmed

new mexico conirmed

I think i found real GTA V map!