Skyrim Map : V - Skyrim

» Sat Mar 19, 2011 11:32 am

Look at the pic with the lake and the dragon flying over the city. You can see little ships in the water. Now, if those are the same sized ships we've seen in Anvil, the cities are going to be huge! Not to mention the world size.

Reference: http://www.oblivionwalkthrough.com/w/m/oblivion_anvil.png

» Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:16 pm

Here's a link to the last map topic:
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1158031-slyrim-map-discussion-2/page__pid__16975809__st__20#entry16975809

Slightly larger flattened scan:
http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/2858/skyrimmap.png

Faulgor made these beauties:

Basic: http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/5636/skyrimmap1.png
Including terrain labels I deciphered: http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/1717/skyrimmapls.png

» Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:08 am

I think either Markarth Side or Falkreath is the other city, but its hard to read the labels on the left side.

This map looks big. They said "massive cities"---and since these cities are considerably far apart, this could be a map comparable or larger to Oblivion without a doubt.

EDIT:

If you look in the middle of the big canyon, I think you can see another city with a label--Markarth Side I think, but I could be wrong.

» Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:27 am

Todd Howard said it was bigger in a unique way. It's also been stated that in a traditional sense it is also larger than Fallout 3.

I am certain the slight shading in the bottom of the canyon is a lake. makarth side is to the east of the canyon.

» Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:18 am

So based on this if Fearabbit is correct in saying:
[...]
The world map can be calculated to being over 53 000 square km or over 33 000 square miles.

This would make the map slightly larger than LotR Online and about half the size of Daggerfall.

Whoa, let's not get overexcited, and check our math, shall we? If one cell is 1172 m2, that's 0.1172 km2 = 0.014 km2. This times 3900 equals 53 km2. You're wrong by a factor of 1000.
53 km2, however, is pretty huge, so let's recheck our facts! The quote actually only says that Morrowind's cells are 81922 units big. We know, however, that Oblivion's cells are 40962 units big, that's 4 times less than Morrowind's cells.
So if we divide our 53 km2 by 4, we get around 13 km2, which is probably a good estimation. (With both Morrowind and Cyrodiil being slightly larger than that. The numbers in the quote in one of the posts above are rubbish, however, because that guy simply took a rectangle of cells which has LOTS of area outside the actual game's boundaries. Oblivion should have about 16km2 and Morrowind somewhere between Skyrim and Oblivion.)