Does anyone have or know where i can get a map of seattle, or a link to one, maybe a pdf link?

Any help would be a ppreciatted. I have notice that the $th ed book does not have one.

Thanks
Shinjo Styla

This guy has some nice Seattle maps (sorry, I know it's a dumpshocker's site but I forgot whose).

Here's another one, though you won't be able to print it.

Note that these are of course 3rd Ed. maps.

wow that was a great site for maps...thanks so much Backgammon.
life saver for a campaign

Well, until Runner Havens comes out it seems safe to assume they're SR4, as well.

I don't think I'm spoiling anything if I say there was no earthquake or tsunami affecting Seattle. So those maps should be OK for SR4...

Woo Hoo...


I think...

hehehe

May I suggest Google Earth? A free service with some excellent satellite imagery and the ability to look at the locations and names of all parks, schools, bars, etc in an area. Plus you can set your own waypoints (for things like Matchsticks, Dante's Inferno, the Renraku Arcology, etc).

I've lived in Seattle 29 years, if you're patient and post questions I'll try to answer as best I can. The previous seattle source books have left out lots of important details, for example the neighborhood the Aztechnology pyramid is in is on top of a fairly tall hill, or the area the Arcology is built in is mostly fill dirt on top of old tide flats (so they most likely have to pump seawater out of the basement). If you want to know about an area ask I'll try to give a good answer, it would be cool if others could do the same for their hometowns.

So maybe the Azzie building was built on top of/ around the intact hill?! Why??
stevebugge, get yer spelunking gear and go check it out for us!

While you're at it, here's a question: any of the bars, restaurants mentioned actually exist? I presume some of the other landmarks are real. What else?

It would be on top of, Capitol Hill as the Neighborhood is known (so called because it was once housed the Capitol of Washington State, the capitol was traded by Seattle to Olympia for the rights to house the University of Washington) is rather large. The uphill grade starts about 7th avenue (west facing slope) in downtown and levels off at about Broadway then begins down hill again at about 23rd avenue finally Leveling off about Martin Luther King Jr. Way. North to South it runs from the Canal down to I-90. If your curious the hill is composed primarily of Sand, then a layer of clay, and finally bedrock. The hill reaches about 500ft at the highest point. Where the Azzie Pyramid is located is today mostly old apartment buildings, Broadway is a center for Gay Culture, drugs, and trendy boutiques.

Some of the landmarks are real, some of the others are based on real places. The Eye the of the Needle is real, and really is a highpriced tourist trap restaurant. Club Penumbra, Dante's Inferno, and Matchsticks all do not exist today. Dante's Address is the present day Federal Courthouse, and Matchsticks Address is Occupied by a Gas Station and a 7-11. Lonestar has taken up residence in the building currently used as Nordstroms discount and over stock outlet called The Rack. Most of Seattle's present day clubs in Downtown are located in Pioneer Square, which is covered by the Archology. If you have the original Seattle Source book, the Gravity Bar really exists but it's an Espresso & Juice Bar.

Wow, my maps are still being used. I made them on photoshop, and each letter had its counterpart labeled on the map, but somehow when I transferred them to pdf I lost that layer. I have retransferred them with all the information and have put a few of them posted here under shadowrun:

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/vdenboer@sbcglobal.net

I will have the rest there within the next few days.

If you want to see a flash map of downtown, I found one playing awake2062 (SR3 MUD), but it should still be pretty good resource as well.

http://www.awake2062.net/images/SeattleGridGuidev1.swf

Here are links for a couple of seattle clubs that could be updated as locations for your games.

http://www.theruins.net The ruins is a private event space in an old building in lower Queen Anne featuring many themed rooms, an excellent bar, and catered food. Members or or member sponsored guests only. Perfect place to meet that High Society Johnson.

Http://www.jazzalley.com This is the club that probably inspired matchsticks in the sourcebook. Features live jazz and great food, and yes the entry is located in an alleyway.

what I was hoping to find is a map of the greater seattle area, color coded by security level. Does such an animal exist?

I've never seen one. The sourcebooks don't really show just where the various neighborhoods the describe "security codes" for are do they. If you have a landmark or neighborhood in mind I'll try to help.

I can save maps from Delorme Street Atlas as Bitmaps and try to overlay security codes then convert to PDF's but it does take some time. If someone has somewhere to host them let me know.

You know what would be really cool is a SR GIS program.

Ok on the color coded maps, I actually started in on one last night, just the downtown core so far. Haven't Finished yet, but it can be done I'm doing them on a block by block level (trust me with the low level programs I'm using it just works better). I'll start working on other neighborhoods moving out from Downtown as I have time. If anyone has a special request post it here and I'll see what I can do

So the Downtown Core is done, anyone want to host it?

ImageShack might be talked into it.

If anyone hasn't checked out those links you should do so. The maps are quite nice.

Ok, all the maps are now uploaded. Enjoy!

I got them all. They are very good and I know they took some hours. Very much appreciated.

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/stevebugge Look for the Downtown Core Map

I had some trouble opening some of Gondor's maps. PDD files?

Ok that should be fixed now.

Found another piece of Seattle Sourcebook Dubious Geography.

The Mitsuhama Towers are at an impossible address, MLK Way and 68th Ave South never cross each other, at least not near the shores of Lake Washington, both run north & south in that part of the city. MLK Way does cross 68th near the Green River in Tukwilla (nearly in the Renton District)

So the city planners had to redirect some roads, no big.

I've usually just put the towers down in Tukwila by the Green river and ignored the Lake Washington flavor text, besides that location puts them in closer proximity to the airport, ports, and train yards all important if you do much importing or exporting (like a Japanacorp would certainly be)

Hm. It worked for me (there doesn't seem to be anything there now). Of course, I also have a yahoo! account, so maybe that has something to do with it.

Try this one agian, it should work.

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/vdenboer@sbcglobal.net

I can get to the files just fine, it's that five of the ones listed on the second page of the map list are showing as .pdd files which my system doesn't recognize.

Oh crap, my bad. I accidently put some of the original files in there, i will get the converted pdf files in there.

The scale of each district map is the same, and there is a legend next to each map showing the both miles and kilometers.
The reason I made some of the district maps on two, or three for puyallup is because i wanted the scale to be the same.

The pdf will be there soon.

All the pdf files are now uploaded. All the places and gangs mentioned can be found in New Seattle or The shadowrun supplemental "Downtown"

There are some very sweet maps linked off this thread.

Thanks to all who made them!

Any more creators out there?

what most people in Seattle seem to forget to mention is that Seattle has lots of freaking steep hills. You don't get that from a map either. I was out there in april and had a truly wonderful time. It was the best vacation my husband and I have ever had BUT the town is full of freaking steep hills!

That's good to know. Now I can add some gradients to my game. But what I'd really like is the location of the Renraku Arcology. I bought the 3rd Ed. New Seattle expecting some maps of the districts or at least major landmarks. There is one of Downtown but it doesn't have the arcology marked on it.

it's where pioneer square is today

I made a map using the google maps API some time ago.
It's not that detailed and it's not updated for 4th Edition, but maybe it's worth a look for some of you.

The link is in my sig.

I also found this map on google maps last summer. I want to say someone posted it here, but I cannot remember. There are actually quite a few Shadowrun related maps if you dig around in google maps for a while.

Are the original map creators still around? I should be able to host them on my site instead of y'all having to use Yahoo.