OT - Size of medieval capitals

[tesco samoa]

hey you should also check out world of darkness.. Vampire Dark Ages... They have some great maps of cities from that time.

As does the other series

[narf poit chez BOOM]

City designer doesn't have a demo Version and I don't have money to spare right now, so that's going to have to wait.

Thanks anyway.
In the meantime, I really should put roads in. Half the city's probably starving.

Thanks, all.

Originally posted by Roanon:
For pure design, if you are looking for an easy tool to design maps, I am using campaign cartographer / city designer from here, here (search for keyword Taevar). I really love this programm, the maps look complicated and like a lot of work, but after taking a small learning curve its really very easy to use and create such maps.

[ May 19, 2004, 21:12: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Roanon]

Or just search their database or the webring, download a suitable map and pass it as your own

[minipol]

Well, the city i was born in was one of the biggest during the middelages (Bruges).
It counted between 40.000 and 45.000 people between 1200 - 1400.
I don't know about the size of the city but it would have only taken you about an hour to walk from 1 side to another, maximum.

[Roanon]

For pure design, if you are looking for an easy tool to design maps, I am using campaign cartographer / city designer from here, here (search for keyword Taevar). I really love this programm, the maps look complicated and like a lot of work, but after taking a small learning curve its really very easy to use and create such maps.

[Kamog]

It's amazing how much the world's population has grown over the Last few centuries! Those medieval capitals don't sound very big at all...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Originally posted by Roanon:
Or just search their database or the webring, download a suitable map and pass it as your own

Aah...No.

[Puke]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
In other words, the typical medieval capital would take only an hour or two to walk accross?

That sounds to small. Anyway, gotta go.

I can walk across the significant (and some of the non-significant) parts of San Francisco in about an hour.

[Puke]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:

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Originally posted by Roanon:
Or just search their database or the webring, download a suitable map and pass it as your own

Aah...No.

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why not, you're not publishing the thing for money, people shared their designs with the intention of them being used.

and i dont think many, if any, western european cities had sewers. at least not enclosed ones.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Puke:
and i dont think many, if any, western european cities had sewers. at least not enclosed ones.

Actually, many of the cities in the Roman Empire had fairly modern sewer systems, so it wouldn't be that suprising if those were still being used after the empire fell.