first things first

What to do first? It's so difficult to decide, so I've decided to start a list of what I think is most important.

1) Bridges: given the limitations of the game in regards to bridges (you can't build roads under them), and their expense (no, I'm not cheating), they have to come first. The problem with recreating pgh's bridges is that they're diagonal in terms of the grid, so you have to split the difference in landing placement, or pick one end and pivot the other.

One trick I'm gonna try is to raise the land where the bridges land across the rivers. This shortens the bridges, but gets the higher bridges at the right altitude, and you can build tunnels underneath them. Particularly where the bridges and the parkway intersect.

2.) Figuring out the scale is bear, because I can't figure out the exact latitude and longitude of the picture. Adding it to a layer of Google Earth is pretty difficult as is (I know what I want to do with programs like this, and photoshop, but can't figure out how to do it half the time)..

I'll do some more work tonight.