My boyfriend is autistic and a few years ago spent countless hours mapping a fantasy world. I don't find that weird, I find that amazing. Posting this on the Internet must have been hard, you're very brave.

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

Fantasy maps are the best. When I get a book, I love looking at the map inside.

@Someone-zr9uq

Ай бұрын

Fantasty maps are awesome I just make them for 5 hours then make another one a week later

@scottydude456

Ай бұрын

I think it’s stupid that caring deeply about city planning is ever ridiculed, why wouldn’t you want to critically think about the place you live? Also there are so many social implications that city planning deals with including environmental and social justice.

@Idontknowwhattocallmyself

Ай бұрын

maps are so amazing

@DiamondKingStudios

Ай бұрын

That would be me had I time for it

You drew an entire f*cking atlas! I approve!

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

I wish I was an atlas.

@GENO485

28 күн бұрын

Um! Language

@kingrojin8009

26 күн бұрын

​@@GENO485frick

@quickdigest

25 күн бұрын

@@GENO485 this is the internet and the cunts fuckn aussie swearing is encouraged

@mrsquid_

23 күн бұрын

@@GENO485 this isn't youtube kids, banning swearing is only something the creator can do

2:00 for the first time in my life, my jaw QUITE LITERALLY dropped when i saw that

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

Member to mew - keeps the jaw strong. Just joking. Thank you so much for the compliment.

@CockatooTransit

Ай бұрын

@@cityplannermismanages also was nice to see another sydneysider and a (somewhat) rail map buff

@CockatooTransit

Ай бұрын

@@cityplannermismanages also maybe in the long term you could even scan this to online 👀

@joshuabray7250

Ай бұрын

@@cityplannermismanages Not only did you just pass the vibe test for me; yes, there was a test ... you excelled as expected. You also passed in being genuine and making me laugh. 11/10, will watch and share with friends - Josh, Your Friendly Neurodivergent lol

@cityplannermismanages

29 күн бұрын

@@joshuabray7250 I made someone laugh - hey ma, I made someone laugh, hehe, cool 😎

“No boat access at Chandler Beach - don’t be taking your boats there!” Made me so happy for some reason. A tiny detail presented so wholesomely

@cityplannermismanages

28 күн бұрын

Thank you. Your comment has made my morning. I was in a weird mood, until I saw your nice comment. 😁🫠

@bryancorvelo

28 күн бұрын

@@cityplannermismanages I’m glad to hear that! I too am in a weird mood (really, a general funk lately), but your video helped to make me happy - thank you for that!

Dude, you have absolutely nothing to be embarrassed about. Your organizational skills are beyond so many people. I can't even begin to understand how your brain works, but believe me it is not something you should be ashamed of; you should be proud. Also, those maps were beautiful. This is definitely one of the coolest videos I've ever seen.

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

Thanks 🙂

@Menezia

8 күн бұрын

true

@andan2293

3 күн бұрын

@@cityplannermismanages Yeah. People spend countless hours on all the different hobbies and nobody cares. Or is anyone judging artists for how long an artwork takes to make? Not even talking about games, watching stuff, social activities etc.. I really don't understand how can someone judge someone else for how they spend their free time without harming anyone... I don't even think making these maps is something weird. People are generally being praised for being this dedicated and focused.

as an autistic woman that has also obsessed over city planning for years, coming across your channel has been so refreshing. i love seeing all of your maps here, i have a similar notebook full of maps because i am enthralled by Boston and NYC, but your fine motor skills are on another level. my lines never looked so neat! thank you sm for posting this, i wish i had more irl friends like you that i could talk about this stuff with without feeling like i'll just be considered weird

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

This is why the net is so good, you can find ppl of similar interests more easily than IRL friends. AND yes my IRL friends all call me weird, even my ASPY friends call me weird. Even my mum calls me weird. I would love to see your notebook full of maps.

@Luketom

Ай бұрын

I used to have a similar obsession with maps more specifically, I created fictional countries and linked up their cities with train lines and motorways. I think this obsession came about due to the old gta maps found in game cases, I used to like driving around, walking, talking in the scenery, using bikes both motorcycles and bicycles and of course LS Transit trains. People always thought it was weird to enjoy a game like gta without the activities most associated with the game. Considering people always labeled me as Autistic it’s nice to see others I can relate to.

@jackylantern

Ай бұрын

@@cityplannermismanagesi’d love to share them! i moved recently so need to find them but they’re around here somewhere. do you have a preferred way to have them shared?

@jackylantern

Ай бұрын

@@Luketom​​⁠omg yes! i never got into gta but i love to play Cyberpunk 2077 and always walk the map and have been working on drawing it all out, especially including the trams!

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

@@jackylantern you can email them to cityplannermismanages@gmail.com or discord if you prefer or steam

Let me introduce you to OpenStreetMap, once you start mapping you'll never stop.

@kaszlnikk7772

Ай бұрын

any good beginner friendly guides/videos/something to get my head around?

@askeladden450

Ай бұрын

​@@kaszlnikk7772learnosm is pretty good. Honestly iD Editor is very intuitive and you can just open it and start messing around and you will get the hang of it pretty quickly. Ofcourse it would be recommended to go through the guidelines on effective mapping before you actually push your changes to the rest of the world.

@sultank5760

29 күн бұрын

​@@kaszlnikk7772yea that would be great

@DefaultMale_

27 күн бұрын

Yes please! The more contributors, the better.

@simphibian

26 күн бұрын

i just looked on this and omg my house isnt even on this LOL

My son, from about 7 years old, filled ream after ream after ream of A4 paper with maps…. Imaginary city maps, just like yours… with suburb names, street names, train lines, stations, etc. etc. etc. he went through packets of texta pens, but only used certain colours, He was obsessed with speed limit signs and coordinating them with my car speedo, from the age of 3 ( so no speeding allowed by mum), and built town scapes out of paper, toothpicks and cardboard from around 6-7. He’s now doing urban planning at RMIT in Melbourne. I love how his mind works… He's on the spectrum too. Your map drawings bring joy to my heart. You are so much alike in that respect. Have you seen the book Urville, by Gilles Tréhin? It’s an imaginary city guide book with incredibly detailed drawings. Best of luck with your studies… I’m sure you’ll blitz it. 🙏🏼👏🏼

I'm not showing off.. but in lockdown i pulled my mattress downstairs and put it under a gazebo in the garden cause it was a heat wave.. and all the fans were sold out.. so were pretty much the same level of genius. Jokes aside, this is probably the most impressive thing ive ever seen.

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

Do you know what's more impressive, the cost of all the pens. I swear I used over 50 pens for this. Can I steal your gazebo idea?

@Vanilla_Skylines

Ай бұрын

@@cityplannermismanages long as you credit me 😅 That is something you should have put in the vid as it is very impressive, can you not bulk buy biros? 🤔

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

@@Vanilla_Skylines at the time of making the maps, I was on pocket money - it was a case of mum I need more pens, I ran out.

@ameliag8574

24 күн бұрын

@@cityplannermismanagesif you don’t have one already maybe start a kofi or patreon or something, i’m sure many people (myself included!) would love to sponsor the purchase of more pens!!

You should get involved in the OpenStreetMap community. Your work will certainly be appreciated

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

Cool. I'll.google it and have a look.

@the_mariocrafter

Ай бұрын

@@cityplannermismanages did you do it?

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

@@the_mariocrafter YES! Im definitely IN and they will be used in vids, Google Maps can eff off now. and omg where I live, its perfect = no errors.

@swaree

Ай бұрын

@@cityplannermismanageson a related note I'm sure you'll love opengeofiction, they're creating a insanely detailed fictional word with OSM

@yourLocalSentientThing

Ай бұрын

@@cityplannermismanages Also see OpenGeoFiction, which is a combination of your fantasy maps and the OSM API. The dedication some of the mappers have even go beyond the map (I know this as I'm part of its server.) If you are interested in OGF, start with the built in editor iD as it is beginner friendly. As you are more experienced, move into JOSM as you have more control over your mapping with the additional tools and plugins. Also, you will only be able to edit in open territories in blue. Although there is a sandbox for beginners, you can also edit in Mecyna and Rhododactylia (where I specialize all my edits in!) for English speakers. Not sure if there are any Norwegian open territories though... Edit: Rhododactylia and Mecyna happen to be right-side driving countries, sorry if that messes you up...

as a fellow Norwegian with autism that draws city maps... man you're on another level, super impressive 🤯

@b0Stark

27 күн бұрын

I came to the comment section to say this, but you already wrote the exact words I had in mind.

This is incredibly impressive! Don't feel embarrased or let anyone tell you this is weird, we all have our 'thing' and it just so happens your thing is city planning, something you are clearly very good at.

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

Thanks.

@user-wq9mw2xz3j

Ай бұрын

not only that- most people who have a thing of interest can not show this amount of dedication to it. This is a very great skill to have.

Did anyone else notice "whipsaw" in the AA section at 15:55?

@forkless

26 күн бұрын

I actually searched the comment section for this. The bigger question would be; Does this constitute enough reason to start over again? 🤣

@DonnieX6

24 күн бұрын

Just came down to the comments to look for this, I immediately though "Oh no!" :D

@MWPdx

11 күн бұрын

Another one who searched the comments for this. I didn't wanna be the one to break it to the guy.

@OweEyeSea

6 күн бұрын

lol, I noticed that too but didn't expect anyone else would. Darn pattern recognition part of my brain is always in overdrive.

I'm not autistic(as far as I know) but I also had this obsession with mapping cities, topographic maps, and zoning maps, mostly at school during boring classes, and at home when procrastinating homework. I drew some city maps with lines representing roads in different colors for collectors, highways, etc. And colorful zoning maps for neighborhoods. This too after playing Cities: Skylines. But, I was also obsessed with transportation as early as elementary school. I remember drawing huge cities from aerial views on several pages attaching them together, and then calculating the population. I remember planning an airport, several bus terminals, and shopping malls, and even drawing each individual parking lot. I was also drawing and designing airplanes, and I had an airline company with my friend. We also drew money and tickets. All during boring classes in elementary school and after-school daycare. And that kind of was my way to also get friends, cause they'll be interested in what I'm doing and would join me in drawing the maps(although it would take them time to get what I'm doing). Anyway, I'm glad to share my "obsession" and see that I'm not the only one doing it!

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

designing airplanes that is super cool. I would love to see them, I use to do that.

@bobi_car

25 күн бұрын

That's impressive...Please tell me you're now a civil engineer

my first thought was "i wish there was an imaginary map book this detailed that i could buy", it would be wonderful for running roleplaying games...

@Zeoytaccount

15 күн бұрын

Exactly! The work reminds me of the Codex Seraphinianus but for maps - they’re on the same level as many famous artists.

@SiriusV23

15 күн бұрын

There is a game call Project Zomboid, it involves land, cities, roads. These maps would be perfect for implementation.

@LTCG11

5 күн бұрын

Yes

The reason for my interest in city planning is actually because almost all of us live in one and face the challenges of a city daily. I live in a huge city where getting around is a chore and being constantly on the way from one place to another is normalized. My goal to make my commute faster by choosing different ways to travel or going at different times just evolved into thinking critically for a way that one city is planned. I never had a special interest in city planning before my long commutes, but after realizing how even a small amount of rational planning can affect the life quality of thousands of people I began to have an interest in it. This gradually evolved into my interest towards sustainable city planning with a design point towards pedestrians and greenery . All of those interests peaked when I started playing CS1 during the Covid outbreak. I believe that most of us do not see cities just as concrete jungles with huge housing and accommodations, but rather as evolving pieces of history and culture where one gets to experience all of it from the first hand. This realisation has made me appreciate all the cities I visited where the absurdities or the planning choices could be explained with the countries culture and history. As a side note I really appreciate how you structure your content around explaining your background towards this specific interest, since it reminds me of how there are likeminded people who enjoy city planning as much as I do. Looking forward to your future videos!!

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

I'm very big on Microforests right now and Green Networks. Your background story around the long commutes is a great way to get involved in city planning. It's great to see as you commute, you observe your surroundings. Thanks for the compliments on my videos. I'll heading and filming on my uni in am up.coming vid soon, you'll enjoy it.

@Trainrhys

Ай бұрын

You should try and think about it even deeper as while I just thought I was city skylines it really went back to when I was 4 or 5

I remember an assignment for geography in high school where we were asked to draw a map of our dream neighbourhood. I just completely LOST myself in it lol. And don't even get me started on timetables, OMG! Your maps look absolutely beautiful ♥ I really appreciate you being open about these obsessions, I don't think it's weird, it's just a way to cope with life I guess ;) And please share a link where you bought those pants. (and buy a new autism ball)

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

hahaha, new autism ball has already been ordered, no more TEMU autism products for me. Um, the pyjamas pants I got for a christmas present - so you'll have to ask Santa, lmao. Yes, timetables, I love choosing a random city and just pulling up their train maps and timetables and exploring them, but also analyzing them, like why does this service not stop at these stops, then I'll pull up Google Maps and see why. And for people that call it weird, I say to them, well I could out causing mischief in the community, and getting into trouble, which would you rather - a mapper who keeps to himself, or an anti-social lout drinking in the park with his friends. Yes, dream neighbourhood - that is the best assignment EVER!

@frxstiie9252

28 күн бұрын

I did this project in that class recently! It was so fun to do, but we were on a time limit so it definitely was rough getting it to look nice.

You hand-illustrated the Road Atlas to an imaginary city. That's literally art. You're an artist.

Not autistic nor ADHD here, at least not diagnosed. But MASSIVE THANK YOU for sharing this. It must take a lot of self love and confidence in yourself to share what you do in your free time, specially that being different from what most non neurodivergent people do. I relly appreciate people like you with such briliant minds. There are zilions of places where a person like you would be inmensely helpful. A remember one of my old coworkers was obsessed with typing. And I mean obsessed. The guy found as the data entry person of the company and absolutely nailed it! Clocked exactly on time, headphones on and could be typing for 8 hours straight. Man I respected him so much.

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

Yeah, tbh I was on the verge of tears uploading this, worried how it would be received. I'm so relieved 😌. Yes, the typist with headphones on, very reliable, I can relate. Thanks for watching, appreciate it.

This is the best thing I've seen so far this month. I gave this video a very well deserved like.

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching. appreciate it

oh my god i am hella relieved im not alone!! ive been doing mini drawings/sketches of fictional cities since i was four, and am now fulfilling my interest in urban planning via cities skylines and a career in engineering!! also are you by chance australian? these drawings look very reminiscent of mine (im australian and mine were inspired from UBD map atlases) and these cities have that australian feel/shape.

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

Yes Australia, they definitely have that feel, don't they, 😁. It's interesting that Australian urban planning can be spotted by just a map - its very unique, but not seen as unique until you analyze it. Have you kept your drawings and sketches from your fictional cities, don't ever throw them out. A career in engineering, oh man, that is so amazing. Thanks for watching.

This is actually encouraging, when I was a little kid I used to draw maps like that all the time. Then they thought I was autistic cause I loved more to focus on road names and infrastructure, rather than "characters or people". Cleared of autism (not that it matters), but I'm picking this passion up again, making map mods for Crusader Kings. Great work!

I'm brazilian and I really wanted to do google maps style maps, but i didn't know how to do it, them i see a word in your video that i never had seen it before "autism", as one that gets me happy. I continue through your video and just get more suprised every page that you flip, now you had just begin being my map god, seriously thats fire.

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

Thank you.

A BIG THANKYOU FOR THE SUPPORT ON THIS - IM QUITE OVERWHELMED, you are all great! I just purchased another book - might FILM & UPLOAD the whole process - stay tuned! I strongly recommend if you enjoyed this video - give this one a watch. I Build my 1st city in game, complete it, UPLOAD IT and then came the COMMENTS. They were so hateful! kzread.info/dash/bejne/aW2ItMikmK-up7A.html

@TheOneCity1

Ай бұрын

I'm like you ❤❤

@Someone36991

Ай бұрын

How long is the side length of each square?

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

@@Someone36991 on the grid you mean, if so its 1.5cm

@Someone36991

Ай бұрын

@@cityplannermismanagesas in how many km, thanks tho

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

@@Someone36991 7.25km for each page

I used to draw transit maps for my cities once it had an extensive metro / rail network

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

YES! I would love to see these maps!

@DiamondKingStudios

Ай бұрын

Once at about sixteen years old when I visited my stepmother’s place of work, I was taken to a room where there was a dry erase board encompassing the entire wall. I then proceeded to come up with and draw a metro system map for a nondescript city I was devising as I drew the map. I wish I still had the photo of it.

dude, planning cities is cool as hell, if you started showing me this book when I was drunk I would be ALL over it the entire night

I know youre working to be an actual city planner, and this definitely shows your love for it. If I was in charge of civil/infrastructure planning I'd hire you in a heartbeat with this kind of dedication.

I use to draw maps all the time as a kid. I loved looking at them as a kid reading history books. Ive played cities skylines and transport fever so much because they inspire so much city and regional planning. Even my job is planning for a large town. My degree was in Geography and GIS. I spend a bulk majority of my time looking and manipulating spaital data for a municipality. If there was one thing I was born to do it was to make maps. There is no doubt in my mind that I am a natural cartographer. It scratches that weirdly obsessive itch. I also have ADD which is funny that you mention it too. I've been asked if I was autistic before. Could be but never diagnosed as such, so I can't really claim that label. Just funny to me that the most creative minds tend to be from those with mental disabilities. 😂

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

Yes GIS is awesome, I've just started learning QGIS at uni this year. It was my first subject - what a subject to throw you into. I slowly got the hang of it, but I found getting the shapefiles from govt websites into it, quite challenging, but once the data was in, the mapping was great, especially the drawing of polygons over maps, and how it makes auto legends. Your job sounds great, a large town, what a responsibility, Yes creative minds are all unhinged, but I'll take the label - I dont wanna change. Thanks for watching, appreciate it.

I almost cried with this video. I’ve needed to find my old notebooks after this video. I’m exactly like this. I’ve created a 7 line metro system city to my city, with all the details (costs, rolling stock, colour of the lines, name of the stations, integration with the airport and many more). I was diagnosed with autism some months ago (I barely knew what autism until then). I’m so happy that I am not the only one

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

Welcome to the club. It's a great club 😊

whoever is designing an openworld zombie game rn....plz hire this dude

I have autism, and a special interest in city planning. And before I had access to a PC or the internet in general, I would take 50 or more pieces of A4 Paper, glue them together, and draw gigantic cities all by myself

this is insane. i love it. whenever i doodled little city grids or metro sketches in chemistry, my teacher would always say "are you city planning?" and while i wouldn't've used that term myself, both that and this kinda make me want to do a more intense running city plan like this. there was also a time during quarantine where i tried to write out all of unicode. it only got as far as the tibetan block, i think, which was ultimately one sixteenth of what i wanted to do.

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

What's the tibetan block, sounds interesting.

@i_am_a_toast_of_french

Ай бұрын

@@cityplannermismanages it's the list of all the tibetan characters in unicode and there are a lot cuz you can customize a base with many consonants and syllables similar to chinese and korean characters

@yukko_parra

Ай бұрын

UNICODE?! so in essence, you wrote about 1/16th of all of the world's possible characters and their variations. It'd be insane to even speak 1/16th of all of the worlds languages, or have pronounced that many words and variations of words... so that's a bloody good job mate.

@spcxplrr

29 күн бұрын

​@@cityplannermismanages the Unicode standard is the international standard for encoding text. The reason why I can put 㤨, ⤠, ❉, and ꩀ all in a youtube comment together is because a bunch of computer scientists and linguists agreed on a way for computers to interpret binary as all sorts of writing systems. for organizational purposes, the whole standard is split up by writing system. for example, all of the greek letters are grouped together (Greek and Coptic block), as well as the common chinese characters (CJK Unified Ideographs block), and so on and so forth. Some writing systems actually get multiple blocks, but that's besides the point. I tried to write out all of the unicode characters sequentially, and I wrote unicode characters (letters, basically) until I got to the Tibetan script. It kept me occupied for a bit during quarantine, but I eventually got bored.

@spcxplrr

29 күн бұрын

@@yukko_parra i actually only got about 4000 characters in. sometimes i really want to do something stupid that takes a long time, and then i start it, and then after like 2 weeks i get bored.

I love this! in my free time at school while waiting for the class to start, i love planning out my own cities, nations, etc.

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

Thanks

I have tried to make my own fantasy worlds before, but there would always be empty spaces that i can't figure out what to fill with. I really admire the ability to be this organised and meticulous, it really brings the world to life

I also have autism, and didn’t waste time to draw cities, but designed a lot of fantasy highways and railways using software, and also like all city games, and wasted time on Google maps exploring the highway network of most cities

You MUST publish this on heavy paper with the plastic spiral binder and sell it. I would have this on my shelf just to open and lose myself inside it. DOO. EET.

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

maybe 😅😅

Dude, I felt my heart flutter! I realise I do this sometimes, not because I am a freak but because I have diagnosed autism which I have denied for years. I feel so validated by this video, because it feels somewhat normal, and I am actually fitting in to this! Oh wow, love your map making skills dude! :)

This has just reminded me of the A2 paper of a city’s bus routes on a hand made map I did at 6! I am also autistic so thank you for sharing this to the internet! Wishing you well

I am autistic myself... and I love all of your work you did! From city designs to even words!

@TheOneCity1

Ай бұрын

Same but I have ADHD

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

thank you.

I'm impressed at that street map book and the word list books, you created. As an aspie like you I used to draw maps a lot too. (Aspie = US vernacular for Asperger's, which is the older term what is now part of the Autism spectrum)

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

Yeah we still use Aspy in Australia too. Its a great word, I find it endearing and not mean at all. Thank you for your nice compliment.

I'm autistic and I went through a city map obsession when I was about 10 years old. I probably would have gotten more into it if I hadn't been really dissuaded by my parents and the few friends I had at the time. I honestly don't know why everyone around me was so against me drawing city maps, but my parents really disliked me doing it and told me to draw other stuff or took away my paper and sent me outside. Over the years my biggest interest has become world building and story telling, and mapping out fantasy and scifi worlds as I write stories for them is always going to be an important and enjoyable part of the process.

I love that everything looks so clean and tidy while at the same time having the charm of being hand-drawn. The pastel colours look really good. If you were my brother I would proudly put one of these maps in a nice frame and have it hanging in my home, if you would let me have one. Don't be ashamed, this is art in my opinion.

@cityplannermismanages

26 күн бұрын

Thank you so much 😀 love pastels

TUTORIALS coming soon & If you would like to purchase these MAPS in Digital High Res PDF for $2.99 click here jamesbrave64.gumroad.com/l/cityplannermismanagesmaps

@euytreryueyruteduyre9126

Ай бұрын

Just use the maps for a dungeons and dragons style game

@thephantomchannel5368

29 күн бұрын

Now we just need a mod that will scale your maps to fit in either CS1 or 2 and auto-generate the roads and terrain layout minus the height maps. Even better if it could auto populate proper zoning with appropriate housing/ businesses/ industry with included names.

@BentleyWilson-tu9du

29 күн бұрын

I’m already planning a map to entertain myself. Thx for the inspiration

I am also autistic but my obession is more political maps and grand strategy games. My favorite city builder though is workers and resources soviet republic, its far better then city skylines in my opinion

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

Yes I love political maps too. That game is something I want to try.

Your story reminds me a lot of my own. I had it with theme parks and rollercoaster tycoon. Even my partents sometimes made fun of me for my obsession too. Eventually I even got a job as a theme park designer for a few years. I love seeing your dedication to this project. It fascinates me, inspires me and takes me back to a passioned feeling I had in my childhood. Thanks :) Your maps look amazing!

@cityplannermismanages

8 күн бұрын

Roller-coaster tycoon, I've seen vids, looks like so much fun

This is honestly fantastic! Dont let anyone trash on you for this, this is harmless fun and clearly engages you.

As someone with ADHD and autism, this is scary. I can understand why people would be concerned. It's fine, but I can see why they'd react badly.

@oiytd5wugho

28 күн бұрын

I don't. Can you explain how it's scary?

@K1L0W0G

27 күн бұрын

@@oiytd5wugho Movies, series and books have made this type of obsession a characteristic of psychopaths, creeps, and bad people in general.

@minimushrooom

26 күн бұрын

I don't understand why it's any scarier than spending 4+ hours a day watching Netflix or scrolling on social media which is what the majority of people do?

@K1L0W0G

26 күн бұрын

People usually see this as scary because fiction always associates dangerous people with obsessions, which is stupid.

THIS IS FANTASTIC!! I am also an Autistic individual and have always struggled socially with my fixations whatever they may have been (film is my over arching interest), because I couldn't stop thinking or talking about them and couldn't hold a ''normal'' conversation with people. THIS MAKES ME HAPPY THOUGH!! I love hearing other Autistic Individuals talking about their interests because I know how incredibly connected and important this is to you as a person. Keep on keeping cool shit!!

this is so cool, imagine putting all of the small maps together into a giant map with all the detail

@cityplannermismanages

6 күн бұрын

I printed them all off, and put them on my wall as one massive map 😁

The first thought I had when you showed the maps was: “How f***ing cool is that!!“

This is actually the first video I've seen of yours, but the maps alone were enough to make me subscribe. There's so much dedication there, and I can't wait to see what else you do!

I have ADHD but not autism (that I know of) and I've easily put in 400+ hours into Cities Skylines since I first got it in 2017. I've been obsessed with traffic management and making things flow as smoothly as possible. (I picked up so many traffic management mods off the steam workshop. It was taking up a lot of memory on my computer haha!) I absolutely love these maps you've made of your city! I don't think this is something to be embarrassed or concerned about at all: its actually really cool! You've built something with your hands, imagination, and heart that's worth being proud of! Hope you had fun making it :)

@cityplannermismanages

26 күн бұрын

TMPE is like 1/2 the reason CS1 is so good. Thanks for watching and enjoying the maps

Man this is truly beautiful. You did a wonderful job! I would love to see these pages photocopied, printed out and fitted together!

You are blessed and gifted. Don't be ashamed of your passion. Many people go through life without having experienced the joy and fulfillment of just the process in itself and instead find misery chasing dollars and social approval.

I love it! I know how difficult it is, to share special interests, but I really appreciate it!

oh my god when you were going through the words and stuff everything was looking so perfect and in so much order, i was almost in tears honestly ! that's godlike work

I think the satisfaction of a nearly organized, completed list or journal is universal. The dedication to pursue this satisfaction is admirable by most and only achieved by few. This was a pleasure to watch.

Your dedication to this is more than I've dedicated myself to anything in life. Nothing but respect from me because this is nothing other than impressive. Wow just wow you've blown my mind with the perfection of this and the layout with miniscule details all there all planned meticulously. You are awesome

I really love the maps and how your skill improves over time. On a distance they almost look like some abstract art piece and than you go closer to it and start to see all those streets and their names, the little shops and what not. Love the detail, precious work.

I was recently diagnosed with autism about 2 years ago but since 2014 when it was released, I've had an obsession with the sims just because I love urban design and architecture. I really appreciate you sharing all of this since it's very relatable 😅

You are incredible! Nothing is wrong with you. I admire you're enjoyment in pursuing that which you love without the self-doubt of "what is the point" and the sheer perseverance. Amazing and inspiring!

i have difficulties not feeling like time spent on my special interest and hyperfixations is "wasted time", but this video was genuinely so cool and inspiring, it really helped with those feelings! because maybe some day i'll have the courage to share what i do and someone else will find it just as interesting!

@cityplannermismanages

23 күн бұрын

You should go for it, when you are ready of course 😁

I thoroughly love looking at and studying any form of map, and the atlas you've made has made is something truly beautiful in my eyes. A wonderful creation borne from your passion with cities. Thank you for being such a wonderful individual, with a beautiful passion.

There's no reason to be embarrassed by this. This is awesome, and your ability to maintain a consistent scale is extremely impressive. Don't stop creating maps.

ALL HAIL KING OF AUTISM seriously impressive, I've tried to draw terrain maps before but nothing this insane. this makes me want to make one myself!

Wow, these are amazing! So beautiful I could look at them all day. I can only imagine the effort that went into it, you should be proud!

dude this is actually one of the coolest things i've ever seen someone do (in general, not just online). please take pride in it, because it's absolutely insane in the best sense possible!

This is extremely impressive. You should be very proud of yourself for all of this work. Amazing!!!

Dude this is honestly insane! You definitely have a gift for this stuff. Im 100% gonna try this myself since I love naming places and cities overall.

@cityplannermismanages

Ай бұрын

There is a tutorial coming soon, including more ASMR videos showing all 112 maps of a new city getting built. stay tuned.

This is awesome!! I love this. I like the way you organize things so neatly its so nice to look at. :)

This is amazing! I'm legit astounded by the attention to detail that you put into the city. like this feels like a real city you mapped not like a utopia or fantasies world but like I could believe that this was a real city in our world which is crazy to me.

I'm highly impressed by your imagination and enthusiasm for personal projects, as many people strive to have that kind of drive to do something they like to that extent. Keep doing you and continue improving yourself.

I find this amazinng, the fact that you found something that makes you passionate, definitelly not something to hide from. Do what makes you happy!

Such amazing dedication this is so impressive.

I love this channel. I love city planning. I used to go outside my house and map out the park sidewalks all the time. It was never as impressive as your entire city, though! It makes me feel like a little kid again, looking as all of the detailed roadways! Makes me want to draw my own.

That's awesome, you learned and built skills based off of being interested in something. it's fun to see you improve as you flip. Thanks for sharing something that clearly brings you joy. Unlike schoolchildren or people who stopped growing and learning at 14 I'm of the opinion that liking things is actually pretty fundamental to being your own person.

@cityplannermismanages

27 күн бұрын

Thank you so much, yes the evidence of my skills improving as I flip is so satisfying to me. ty for your comment. and yes THIS > liking things is actually pretty fundamental to being your own person.

This is actually INSANE! In an incredible kind of way! You just earned my respect! And a quick sub!

literally insane! I love it! details are astonishing

This is cool af! That takes mad discipline, knowledge, creativity and patience. Props to you

thank you for sharing this. it is amazing!

dude this is so fucking cool, the precision and consistency is amazing. i'm in awe!!!

man that's absolutely amazing. Your time and commitment is absolutely remarkable and just. wow.

this made me smile

I don't care what they call it, you showed the first map and I was massively impressed.

A few years ago (probably in 2019 as well, lol). I first created a country of my own and then spent a few weeks drawing the capital city. It’s only 14 pages or something but it’s interesting that we have the same tactics of drawing highways first! I’m really impressed with the amount of detail in your maps and I can relate to the struggle of coming up with names. My capital city’s name may or may not be completely copied from a Spanish city. I love that you share your work, I have but on a way smaller scale.

@cityplannermismanages

29 күн бұрын

Sounds really interesting, and thank you for your comment.

I never had the commitment or patience for fine detail drawing so seeing something that I can't do is really neat and wonderful. Thank you for sharing. One suggestion that I have is to keep the same scale maps as your notebook but have a much larger canvas like an old school classroom map the size of a wall. That way each page would be a tile to a much larger map.

You are not alone I can say that much. When I was younger I used to make a lot of maps, especially when I was at school. It is interesting seeing the differences between your maps and my own. My maps never got as detailed as yours and even my later maps never got as through, detailed, or neat penmanship. I am jealous looking at your map because it looks so much better in many ways than the various maps I made, with all of the detail and coloring and how nice they look! Mine were always sort of rough but legible. While I had all the fun stuff like highways and train systems I didn't go into the detail of shopping centers and uses of spaces as much as you did, even though I probably should have. One interesting difference though is one detail that I was heavily fixated on was the numbering of the blocks which seems to be absent on your map. This makes sense since as a kid I was very much fixated on numbers and so seeing these big streets spiral out into big numbers was very compelling. Especially the little streets that could versus the big streets that only last a bit. I think my biggest map is about 88 pages. I have some other maps that are also pretty big I think. I had a bit of a habit of sticking with a project for like a couple of months to a year before starting up some other random city to see if it caught my fancy. A lot of my maps tend to be somewhat incomplete because of that. Your map is much better at considering the layout of the city and all of the actual meaty city stuff that had to do with cities and how they look and function. I had a downtown (sometimes) but I didn't think about how it functioned with other elements. Train lines just sort of went where I wanted them too. Same thing with trams. So for example one of my big maps has sort of redundant and too close another train lines wth a lot of east west lines, but new north south ones. Highways had the opposite problem with a lot of north south highways but few east west ones besides the outer ringer which was the gimmick of this map. I never really understood that when I was younger and making maps on paper and so a lot of what I did was mimicking the places where I lived (The United States) which meant a lot of sprawl and highways! Speaking of highways all of the various exits on them and the ordering and pathing of highways was really interesting to me so I tended to have a lot more highways than a good city should. To be fair, so does most of America! That is another interesting difference because it is clear the effect of where one is born and used to seeing on their maps. My maps are unmistakably inspired by the United States with a lot of straight grid like patterns mixed up like the messy mix of street grids that comprised of where I grew up. While you mention a lot of Sydney influences on your maps. I do remember the difficulty of coming up with names for places. Because omg so many streets. When I try to make maps now it's hard to channel that same magic but honestly I just took words I liked, or names of cute things like animals or just shoved letters together and called it a word! It went decently well I feel like. It is nice to see that someone had the same obsession that I did. It was interesting because no one really had the same interests I did. I didn't know other people who read the county map book for fun. Or who made these large maps. I remember other kids were curious about them, and I know one teacher of mine liked them and was impressed. I think I didn't care enough to really hide it and I wanted to draw them so I did. They were fun to draw. I should draw and make more maps now, actually thinking about the nature of cities and what works to create an effective successful city. Hopefully this comment finds you well and at gives you some support that you're not alone in this extensive mapping journey.

Thats fucking incredible, your so passionate about it. Why would anyone be embarrassed by this. It takes a lot of time and dedication that many people simply lack and wouldnt be able to do the things you can. Thats very unique and cool. Glad you shared it.

WOW! This is INSANE. Here's why: I spend a lot of my free time playing Cities Skylines and reading street directories and EVERY DETAIL about this is on point. I also make these sort of maps, but I would never be able to do it to this accuracy and detail. Congrats, this is incredible! 👏

@cityplannermismanages

29 күн бұрын

Thank you very much, its appreciated.

@thephantomchannel5368

29 күн бұрын

I was always lousy at drawing so when I was a kid I would play "vacation" by having a large road atlas and tons of AAA guide books where I would map my route and have all the points of interest marked from the guides. Good times. To be able to draw my own maps would have been otherworldly which makes me appreciate the achievement of dedication and patience that is archived in those little notebook pages that were once entirely blank and now completely full of dreams. If he can dream it he can draw it : )

@cityplannermismanages

23 күн бұрын

Wow you're nice words made my day

It's really cool to see how interests manifest in different people. This is a sincerely awesome project. Mine tends to jump all over the place but you bet I'll make a spreadsheet about it lmao

I randomly found this video and gods thank algorithm this is so cool. I'm so sending your channel to a friend, she's been interested in city planning lately

gave it a like and even added it to my favs, because I will definitely show this to my daughter when she grows up!

I love the scrabble book. great resource and awesome patterns to observe. looks much nicer than some scrabble learning tools. fun to do it by hand too

OH MY GOD! I used to do something similar at school when the teacher was teaching, never got into trouble. But yours is on a truly different level of detailing.

This is incredible!!, one thing I've always wanted were books organizing words by all sorts of different categories but I can't for the life of me organize lists, charts, tables, etc... I would be extremely proud of this, thanks for sharing it with everyone. Again, super cool stuff, made me happy to see the video

@cityplannermismanages

26 күн бұрын

Thank you.

There was a guy in my class that used to do this in black pen. I sat behind him and I could literally just watch him for hours. I hate that I was too scared to talk to him, we both had autism, but mine is the under stimulated kind, his was the overstimulated kind. I was also pretty good at masking, and he wasn't so he got bulled a lot before I knew him. By the time I'd met him, I was sure he would rather not talk to anybody at all. It was him who got me interested in cities, grids, and planning. Watching him before and after class map out our city of Chicago in such detail made me want to try it too.

I also liked to draw maps as a kid. Not to this level, but I would've been blown away if you had showed me this. Well, I'm still blown away now. Like creating an entire city with merely a pen, paper and your own imagination, this is so cool.

When i was younger i used to draw metro maps, i really liked it, i even created a ficticious country, with its airports, islands, highways, ports... Even made a map for its capital city detailing its streets, train stations, green areas, highways... But then i see this and, its just beautiful, just a dream, the fact you put all that dedication into building this atlas of a city with that degree of perfection its just mindblowing. Congrats!

I feel funny about this, and I mean good funny. I like that you showed us something so precious :) I feel honored! And damn it's a hell of a work (although I am terrified by your streets being so close to the coast. Erosion!! )