Mapping Los Santos! Building/landmark analysis

[Pizentu]

Where is this ? look in the left side...

 

Bird droppings???

[Found_Again]

LOL, could you be more specific?

[ChatterBoxFM]

Where is this ? look in the left side...

 

The ocean? A wave on the left side?

[arrowface10]

f*ckING 10 PAGES HOLY sh*t I AM ABOUT TO RAPE MY RUG!

[The Leprechaun]

 

Where is this ? look in the left side...

 

It looks like this. http://d1058838.myweb.westnethosting.com.a...a-waves-840.jpg

 

Arrowface, the question is, "do you have permission?" If so, then you have no worries.

Edited August 17, 2013 by The Leprechaun

[StJimmy]

WHAT? the tread is unpinned! Almost two years of hard work and this thread is being brought down by a doodle of the map from an achievement? It proves nothing, there is still tons to map within the boundaries! This forum is falling apart from a stupid leak! This is some climatic sh*t! Gentlemen let me be frank- f*ck the achievement, your work wasn't for nothing, in my mind you guys are geniuses. You can unpin us, you can leak achievements but you cannot- WILL NOT break our spirits, dismiss our work, invent evidence for SF and LV out of Mid-air but... BY GOD, WE WILL MAP THE HELL OUT OF THIS GAME TILL SEPT THE 17th HITS!!!! Ladies, Gentlemen... let's MAP sh*t!

 

Wow, what an inspirational speech, you are a genius. We should listen to him and get back to mapping with evidence not texture blobs.

Agree Great speech, too bad more people haven't read it, and I also hate texture glitch blobs

[Found_Again]

f*ckING 10 PAGES HOLY sh*t I AM ABOUT TO RAPE MY RUG!

It will get there.

[datboishad]

WHAT? the tread is unpinned! Almost two years of hard work and this thread is being brought down by a doodle of the map from an achievement? It proves nothing, there is still tons to map within the boundaries! This forum is falling apart from a stupid leak! This is some climatic sh*t! Gentlemen let me be frank- f*ck the achievement, your work wasn't for nothing, in my mind you guys are geniuses. You can unpin us, you can leak achievements but you cannot- WILL NOT break our spirits, dismiss our work, invent evidence for SF and LV out of Mid-air but... BY GOD, WE WILL MAP THE HELL OUT OF THIS GAME TILL SEPT THE 17th HITS!!!! Ladies, Gentlemen... let's MAP sh*t!

 

Wow, what an inspirational speech, you are a genius. We should listen to him and get back to mapping with evidence not texture blobs.

Agree Great speech, too bad more people haven't read it, and I also hate texture glitch blobs

[LSSDLSPD]

 

WHAT? the tread is unpinned! Almost two years of hard work and this thread is being brought down by a doodle of the map from an achievement? It proves nothing, there is still tons to map within the boundaries! This forum is falling apart from a stupid leak! This is some climatic sh*t! Gentlemen let me be frank- f*ck the achievement, your work wasn't for nothing, in my mind you guys are geniuses. You can unpin us, you can leak achievements but you cannot- WILL NOT break our spirits, dismiss our work, invent evidence for SF and LV out of Mid-air but... BY GOD, WE WILL MAP THE HELL OUT OF THIS GAME TILL SEPT THE 17th HITS!!!! Ladies, Gentlemen... let's MAP sh*t!

 

Wow, what an inspirational speech, you are a genius. We should listen to him and get back to mapping with evidence not texture blobs.

Agree Great speech, too bad more people haven't read it, and I also hate texture glitch blobs

[arrowface10]

HOLY sh*t WE ARE SO CLOSE I CAN FEEL MY NIPPLES STICKING OUT!

 

[harri43]

WHAT? the tread is unpinned! Almost two years of hard work and this thread is being brought down by a doodle of the map from an achievement? It proves nothing, there is still tons to map within the boundaries! This forum is falling apart from a stupid leak! This is some climatic sh*t! Gentlemen let me be frank- f*ck the achievement, your work wasn't for nothing, in my mind you guys are geniuses. You can unpin us, you can leak achievements but you cannot- WILL NOT break our spirits, dismiss our work, invent evidence for SF and LV out of Mid-air but... BY GOD, WE WILL MAP THE HELL OUT OF THIS GAME TILL SEPT THE 17th HITS!!!! Ladies, Gentlemen... let's MAP sh*t!

 

Wow, what an inspirational speech, you are a genius. We should listen to him and get back to mapping with evidence not texture blobs.

f*ck yeah much appreciated mapping here. You ARE geniuses and will not be SILENCED! We may be coming towards an exit but its not the end! We are on the road to 1K!!

.....and san diego is nowhere near it

[xzxxsicko]

WHAT? the tread is unpinned! Almost two years of hard work and this thread is being brought down by a doodle of the map from an achievement? It proves nothing, there is still tons to map within the boundaries! This forum is falling apart from a stupid leak! This is some climatic sh*t! Gentlemen let me be frank- f*ck the achievement, your work wasn't for nothing, in my mind you guys are geniuses. You can unpin us, you can leak achievements but you cannot- WILL NOT break our spirits, dismiss our work, invent evidence for SF and LV out of Mid-air but... BY GOD, WE WILL MAP THE HELL OUT OF THIS GAME TILL SEPT THE 17th HITS!!!! Ladies, Gentlemen... let's MAP sh*t!

 

Wow, what an inspirational speech, you are a genius. We should listen to him and get back to mapping with evidence not texture blobs.

Agree Great speech, too bad more people haven't read it, and I also hate texture glitch blobs

terrible speech .

what does God have to do with your stupid spoiler map thread ?

also only Fido is made GTA V map look realistic and possible , rest are just posting screens and scratching their balls over time to time.

[Hbkares]

ahhh sorry havent seen it was a wave...

[no_snacks]

 

Hi, i've been reading this topic for like a month. Like 5 or 6 pages behind someone said that we had the outline of the map since 9th July that was on the Gameplay Trailer.

 

I've downloaded the HD video and looked for that bit, I got a screenshot of where it's more detailed and seen something wierd.

Please don't go all crazy with me if I'm wrong, or it has already been seen before. Maybe I can help, or maybe not, i'm not 100% sure.

 

On this first screenshot we can see the map, I've added the actual achievment "map", but right on the edge of the piece of the paper we can see ( atleast me ) a shadow or even a bit or land possibly? The achievment map I don't think that has to be 100% exactly "the actual map". On the actual blueprint, that side was taken out for a reason and also we can't see the border on that side, maybe hidding something? Why we haven't seen that side so clearly till now? You can see on the last image which has been made by someone on here ( It was Wayne Kerr on the page 965 ) and marked what we haven't seen so far.

Link for full-size: Link

 

 

 

Also, I've seen this official photo from GTA V, has this been already seen? It's a wave behind the boat or maybe a little mountain = island from the shadow?

 

 

Here's the map marked by Wayne Kerr on the page 965.

 

That map on the pin board is not showing extra land. There's a little something called color contrast. You can see it at work here with the color of the water in that sliver, and the white paper in front of it, making it look like something important when it's only the color of the water.

Nice spot GaDeAs, but as MrMusAddict says, it's just colour contrast. A trick of the eye.

If you black out the edge of the white paper, you can see the circled section is the same colour as the rest of water around the map.

 

 

Edited August 17, 2013 by Wayne Kerr

[M_Roc]

Was right in front of us the whole time, Maybe that's why the mods unpinned this. You guys weren't good enough.

[Deffpony]

Was right in front of us the whole time, Maybe that's why the mods unpinned this. You guys weren't good enough.

What are you talking about.

 

Please cut the spam.

[no_snacks]

Was right in front of us the whole time, Maybe that's why the mods unpinned this. You guys weren't good enough.

It WAS found & was used to help create the shape of our maps. What an asshole.

[Magic_Al]

This is a size comparison based on the size of Los Santos. (Please study that link if you are not familiar with it.)

 

All maps in this image are to the same scale. The green area in context is exactly 20 square miles, including interior waterways not shown. Allowing for error due to the low resolution of the achievement icon, and small islands omitted, the GTAV map landmass is virtually equal to the sum of landmass area of GTA San Andreas, GTA IV, and the playable (in boundaries) land area of Red Dead Redemption. In the oft-quoted description of GTAV's size as the sum of those worlds plus room to spare, room to spare is literally the rooms inside the map: interiors, underground, and underwater area.

 

 

Landmass areas of other maps:

RDR 5.75 sq mi in boundaries

GTAIV 3.31 square miles

GTASA 11.29 sq mi

Total 20.35 square miles.

[LotusRIP]

[no_snacks]

This is a size comparison based on the size of Los Santos. (Please study that link if you are not familiar with it.)

 

All maps in this image are to the same scale. The green area in context is exactly 20 square miles, including interior waterways not shown. Allowing for error due to the low resolution of the achievement icon, and small islands omitted, the GTAV map landmass is virtually equal to the sum of landmass area of GTA San Andreas, GTA IV, and the playable (in boundaries) land area of Red Dead Redemption. In the oft-quoted description of GTAV's size as the sum of those worlds plus room to spare, room to spare is literally the rooms inside the map: interiors, underground, and underwater area.

 

 

Landmass areas of other maps:

RDR 5.75 sq mi in boundaries

GTAIV 3.31 square miles

GTASA 11.29 sq mi

Total 20.35 square miles.

Good stuff.

 

When you say "landmass" is that literally the land only or does it include the water between the islands of GTA SA & the islands of GTA IV?

There has always been that confusion on both this thread & the Los Santo size thread. Just wanted to clear it up.

 

Cheers.

[latigreblue]

Looks like Zee got his wish. In Zee's video from when he was in LA, that road he was riding along where he was saying, 'Rockstar, Los Santos better look like this', is perfectly recreated in the Online Trailer.

[Juzt]

20 square miles is small to me, its not tiny but im a little underwhelmed.

[JOSEPH X]

 

Gotta admit, that's very good.

 

[Gnocchi Flip Flops]

20 square miles is small to me, its not tiny but im a little underwhelmed.

Well look at it this way, there is 20 square miles of complete diversity. No buildings have been repeated like in IV and then you have countryside that looks so detailed. If you're not happy then well you can go play some crappy game like TDU2 or something.

[tylerboy1333]

Amazing how close you guys have came to the real shape

[Magic_Al]

 

This is a size comparison based on the size of Los Santos. (Please study that link if you are not familiar with it.)

 

All maps in this image are to the same scale.  The green area in context is exactly 20 square miles, including interior waterways not shown.  Allowing for error due to the low resolution of the achievement icon, and small islands omitted, the GTAV map landmass is virtually equal to the sum of landmass area of GTA San Andreas, GTA IV, and the playable (in boundaries) land area of Red Dead Redemption. In the oft-quoted description of GTAV's size as the sum of those worlds plus room to spare, room to spare is literally the rooms inside the map:  interiors, underground, and underwater area.

 

 

Landmass areas of other maps:

RDR 5.75 sq mi in boundaries

GTAIV 3.31 square miles

GTASA 11.29 sq mi

Total 20.35 square miles.

Good stuff.

 

When you say "landmass" is that literally the land only or does it include the water between the islands of GTA SA & the islands of GTA IV?

There has always been that confusion on both this thread & the Los Santo size thread. Just wanted to clear it up.

 

Cheers.

With the old, known maps, I define landmass as everything on the 2D map that is not surface water, and also within gameplay boundaries in the case of Red Dead Redemption. To be consistent, adding the lakes and rivers to the GTAV map would reduce its landmass area, but 20 square miles is only approximate for the real map due to unknown detail of the coastline and missing islands and other features.

 

20-21 square miles fits the description of GTAV's landmass being 3.5x the size of Red Dead Redemption, with the understanding that only the accessible, fully detailed part of RDR counts.

[Juzt]

 

20 square miles is small to me, its not tiny but im a little underwhelmed.

Well look at it this way, there is 20 square miles of complete diversity. No buildings have been repeated like in IV and then you have countryside that looks so detailed. If you're not happy then well you can go play some crappy game like TDU2 or something.

im sure it'll be great but since we cant play it yet, and this is about the map itself. it's small. certainly not HUGE like R* said. that's all i'm saying.

[Choco Taco]

just some crap I pieced together...

 

http://i.imgur.com/8atea2O.jpg

[LotusRIP]

 

just some crap I pieced together...

 

http://i.imgur.com/8atea2O.jpg

Wow that is epic!

 

I wonder how long it takes to fly from South to North of the island?

[Magic_Al]

just some crap I pieced together...

 

http://i.imgur.com/8atea2O.jpg

I find that aesthetically pleasing.