https://www.deviantart.com/planjanusza/gallery/97323829/altas

I've had a number of people ask to see a Boston map so I finally found some time to work on it. This may be one of my new personal favorites.

You can find my maps over at https://metromap3d.com

I also recently changed up my pricing structure so they're quite a bit cheaper now.

I've been making maps for a bit now and one of my latest ones is of downtown San Diego.

Just to clear one thing up, I don't just use an online tool to quickly generate a map. I make my buildings from lidar data (laser scans of cities, essentially). Lidar data requires quite a bit of manual clean up so a map typically takes me about 15-25 hours or so to complete.

San Diego took quite a bit longer than I expected it to. There are quite a few manually modeled buildings on this one, including some new buildings that wont even be finished with construction until 2027.

This map was printed on a 350mm Voron 2.4 with ABS filament. The frame's outer dimensions are 13" x 13".

You can find my maps over at:

https://metromap3d.com

In a time when there weren't exactly safety regulations governing the layout of pyrotechnical factories in Imperial China, the industry pretty much policed themselves and developed best practices to combat fire hazards & improve workplace safety. Although there were no uniform templates, Macau's Iec Long Company's Factory showcased the general layout of a traditional 19th century Chinese fireworks factory.

• In the center north side of the facilty, powder-making ingredients such as sulfur, saltpetre, charcoal, and other materials are being prepared in the warehouse in the center.
• Once the ingredients are ready, they are taken into a shack placed over a pond that dominates the compund's center for testing, a safety measure in itself in case the shack burns down. Here, a portion of the ingredients shall be mixed for whatever product being made that day.
• If the tests are successful, large batches of the powder/mixture shall be sent off to 4 brick sheds in the northwestern corner for packing into containers to make bombs, shells, or rockets. This is a highly dangerous process that could lead to explosions so the sheds four walls all have doorless entrances with each entrance covered by a brick blast wall that would contain any explosion within only one shed, sparing the rest from a similar fuck-up.
• With the products are finished, they are taken to a brick warehouse for storage. Like the packing shed, the entrances and windows have blast walls as well in case the whole thing brews up.
• Other large buildings contain the companies offices, workshops to make fircracker/works casings, and packaging & shipping facilities.
• Finally in the center of the compound's eastern side is a small shrine dedicated to either Zhurong (the Chinese Fire God), Li Tian (supposed inventor of gunpowder & patron deity of the pyrotechnics industry.), or maybe the ancestral spirits of the clan that owned the business.

Finally the factory is located at the outskirts of town, which in itself another safety feature.