Banana Pudding

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    I think L.S. stretches south further than that.

    And what's "Grapeseed"? Is it just a logo or is it a landmark?

    Grapeseed - http://i.imgur.com/vqclk.jpg

    I was generous in the distances on that map. It could still be smaller. The distances from the observatory to the Vincent Thomas bridge, oil well to Bank Tower, observatory to Bank Tower, and dam to Bank Tower could all be closer. Look at the pictures below and compare the distances between the points to the map I made. I added extra distance.

    observatory to bridge - http://i.imgur.com/7TRas.jpg

    observatory to Bank Tower - http://i.imgur.com/LTTPa.jpg

    oil well to Bank Tower - http://i.imgur.com/8M29E.jpg

    dam to Bank Tower - http://i.imgur.com/HjJoe.jpg

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    I don't know if this might be messing up your estimates, but you seem to be comparing the Chrysler Building and the US Bank Tower a little wrong.

    While both building have a similar total height (1,046 ft Chrysler, 1,018 ft US Bank) its not exactly the same thing, as the US Bank Tower's height goes to it's flat roof while the Chrysler Building's includes it's spire, and your comparison images seem to be setting the image height of the US Bank tower not to the Chrysler Building's total spire height (which isn't visible in the images) but to it's roof which has a height of 925...cutting 93 ft for the building.

    Just wanted to point that out.

    I'm aware that the height of the Chrysler Building is to the tip of the antenna and I've factored that in. In the image below, you can see the Bank Tower is tilted. If you straighten it, it will get a little taller. The sizes match up well in the side by side comparison. If anything, Liberty City looks a little too small and if you increased the size of it, the Los Santos estimate would get smaller.

    Ce99D.jpg

    Also, I was generous with the placement of the observatory and mountains to the east. They could both be closer to the buildings.

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    Given that Los Santos seems to be smaller than we'd all expected

    Not me. I've been telling you people it's not big. I've used multiple methods of estimating the size, shown the process and pointed out how they all came to the same conclusion, but for some reason you didn't want to believe what you were looking at.

    He said they choose to focus on one city so the city could sprawl... To that, i say meh,

    That's the most condensed sprawl I've ever seen. I was hoping for multiple smaller cities instead of one big city, but it looks like we might be getting one not so big city. At this point, it seems like it's going to be something like this...

    1Dlyd.jpg

    ...twice the size of SA with only one Los Santos.

    I know they said it's just one city, but I can't say I fully believe it. That's too much space for that city area they showed. I still feel like they're hiding something. I wanted an actual destination to travel to - not just some town with a dirt landing strip. Maybe there will be a sizable Santa Catalina Island far off the coast that you have to fly to.

    Anyway, I really don't have any complaints. I'd still be happy with one city and all the other stuff in the game. I just wanted to be completely blown away. Fingers crossed for horses and car customization.

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    This is still scaled wrong i'm afraid. Look at the size of the roads on the LC image you pasted, and then the roads on the original picture...I know NYC has large roads, but not that big. You can also see the scale difference on the close windows on skyscrapers.

    /edit - Also, the GTA V image looks like a wide angle lens (55mm) and the GTA IV image looks like a lower angle lens (15-18mm)

    Yeah, that's it. Focus on roads and windows that you can't see and ignore the sizes of the landmark buildings. Good job! You get an A+!

    Well it seems like you're focusing on just the landmarks (1 landmark), and none of the rules of perspective & lens size. Anyway, i don't wanna go over this again. I'm not trying to say it looks huge from this screenshot, because it doesn't. I'm just stating what i see, and what looks wrong with your paste over - in my opinion.

    The distance wouldn't be affected that much using a different lens size - http://i.imgur.com/Q3inJ.jpg

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    This is still scaled wrong i'm afraid. Look at the size of the roads on the LC image you pasted, and then the roads on the original picture...I know NYC has large roads, but not that big. You can also see the scale difference on the close windows on skyscrapers.

    /edit - Also, the GTA V image looks like a wide angle lens (55mm) and the GTA IV image looks like a lower angle lens (15-18mm)

    Yeah, that's it. Focus on roads and windows that you can't see and ignore the sizes of the landmark buildings. Good job! You get an A+!

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    Do you agree that the city of Los Santos (urban area, not countryside) will be larger than Liberty City?

    There's not enough information to know at this point. For instance, the oil well appears to be on the base of a mountain. It could really be a mountain with nothing much behind it or it could actually be just a hill that flattens out with buildings for miles beyond.

    Over the Vinewood sign, it's kind of hard to tell exactly what's in the distance. You can see what looks like houses, but it looks like a sparsely populated area.

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    Nope, it maybe 15-25 sq miles, How can you still believe the only urban area of this HUGE map will be less than 5 sq miles? Wake up, Pud.

    These are just parts of a 14 square mile map:

    Q0H7S.jpg

    Now look at this picture again and tell me how many square miles you think it is...

    CRfKw.jpg

    Study the numbers in the picture below and try to get an estimate of the distance from the Bank Tower to the other side of the Vincent Thomas Bridge -

    rzdr6.jpg

    I'll help you out. It's about a half mile.

    The problem with this entire argument is that it's based on fuzzy logic. Every one of Banana Pudding's posts have said something abstract like "My estimated size of the city area of Los Santos" or "I didn't estimate the whole map - just the city area that they showed in the trailer".

    Banana Pudding, nobody knows what you mean by "city area". You could be taking about the full city limits of Los Santos, in which case I suspect Marcus is right and you're way off. Or you could just be talking about some arbitrary cluster of buildings, in which case it's completely pointless to compare that random area to the entire map of Liberty City.

    If there's a third possibility, please explain it concisely. Otherwise everyone quit clogging the thread with your dick-swinging contest.

    I already said what my estimated area included. Perhaps you should do less crying and more reading.

    I only estimated the area of the city within the mountains. It's in the areas marked in red and south to the bridges.

    9XosT.jpg

    Do you see the mountains I drew in my map? Those are the mountains you see around the city in the first trailer. That's pretty obvious to people who are at least somewhat intelligent. My dog could figure that out.

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