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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 6356310" data-attributes="member: 50895">As a professional artistic cartographer, I enjoy creating interesting locations for maps from the imagination. Somehow creating maps of things I see in the current real world, just doesn't stimulate the creativeness in me. I mean if I wanted a map of something modern and specific, I would Google for some floor plans of a given structure and use that as is. I have created a few modern post-apocalyptic style maps, because displaying a destroyed version of the familiar, I can keep my interest enough to complete a modern map. If I were going to play a Modern setting game (which I probably never will for the same reasons I don't like to make modern maps), I would pick a real life city like Chicago, London, or San Fransisco then purchase a detailed city guide with maps the kind that tourist might purchase. I'd find online maps and floorplans of famous locations in that city to use, then as previously mentioned I'd find floorplans of typical structures for things like nightclubs, office buildings, fast food places, etc. If I'd really want to create maps of modern locations, I'd have probably become an architect in real life, something that never interested me - ancient architecture is cool, modern, not so much - at least not so much to me.There are modern RPG map products out there, though not many for the reasons I discussed. Charles White creates some modern map products, though I forget what his products are called "Modern something" - I've seen an office building, a modern church and a few others. They are mostly blueprint style line drawings or architectural floor plans of real world locations. Again, something you could find with a general Google search of other real floorplans made for the real world and not specifically for gaming. Those would work fine.Really because of the huge availability of floor plans of any kind of modern structure and real world location you can find online, I really don't see the problem of a lack of modern map content that can be used in games.</blockquote>

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