Amazing looking board - odd to see Canada so crunched in cities?

Wonderful - anythoughts on costs or are you gonna post on the forum for suggestions?

CHRIS

Yeah, it is funny to see a population density map of Canada. They are all like huddled up close to the boarder. I live pretty far north in the US, and I can't imagine wanting to go much further.

Bizarre...this seems to imply that there's land to the north of the United States! Is this based on some crazy role-playing game universe or something?

    Electricity in Canada?

    Check that -- I looked at the map and the electricity gets exported to the US. Fair enough.

             Sag.

Yes, there is land outside the US borders. In fact, US is not an island. There are countries attached on both north and south side of the US territory... Also, there is nearly 20 times the US population that live OUTSIDE the US.

Seriously. To anybody interested in geography: about 80% of the Canadian people lives within 200 km of the south border. There is but one and only reason for that: climat. Thanks for some Jetstream and seacurrents it gets really cold here compared to the same latitude in Europe (<- that's one of the landmass outside US). Range from max 35C in summer to min -35C in winter.

Also, with about 37 millons people living in Canada, you can't have many big cities. On the PowerGrid map, many shown cities have less than 150 000 inhabitants.

Finally, the map is really a nice piece of work but the colors does not match the actual territory division. Canada is a federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories. The map suggests 5 regions.

    Same is true for the US and German maps -- the territories need to have an even number of cities each in order to maintain stable game play.

             Sag.

Fine.
I've not played PowerGrid yet but it have been on my TODO/A MUST/GET/OWN list for a while.

Pretty neat board, but wouldn't it benefit from showing a little less of the frozen north? I understand there may be a bit of Canadian pride at stake by not showing the totality of the country, but if some of the north were cut down, then the cities could be spread out a bit more. Just a thought Looks great.

How about a 300 DPI version?

I'll be posting the full PDF when it is complete. The PSD file will also be available for anyone who wants it.

As for showing so much of the north... yes, the map does have large areas to the north with nothing in it, but hey, that's Canada. If I tried to zoom in to the populated areas, the map would have been too long for the standard size in the end. That was my initial thinking too, to try and zoom in as much as possible, and I have done that nearly as much as I could. Victoria is about half an inch from the edge of the board and St. Johns is pretty close on the eastern side too. I would have loved to spread it out more, and bring some more cities into Ontario too, but it just couldn't be done.

    Not sure it's necessary for the map to be any particular shape. If you'd like it to match the existing map then you do indeed have no compelling reason to exclude the G.W.N. But a long thin map would be just fine. Heck, a map of Japan or Mexico might even include a gentle curve to it.

    Couldn't help but notice that more than a few of the connection costs are missing. Still a work in progress?

             Sag.

beautiful map, great work

perhaps not a work in progress, but perhaps the fastest connection spam game youve ever seen i wonder how it would go

special rule for the export cities or do they just connect normally?

You Canadians speak pretty good English for foreginers...

Gasp! You mean people outside US know English? Weird foreginers (sic)....

[edit] Great map, BTW.

One glaring error here:

The power generated in Canada should be shown exported to the U.S. (at a nice low rate thanks to Free Trade), then power generated in the U.S. is brought back in to Canada at a higher rate (thanks to Capitalism).

Also, all power out east should be diverted directly to Quebec and if you complain, they will threaten to seperate from the board.