Real maps of GT4 circuits (Google Maps/Earth)

[stan394]

I found Tsukuba! I found Tsukuba! I found Tsukuba!!!

 

[wheelow]

sweet.

 

[dustwave]

this is awesome.. had no clue that we were racing in actual streets :|

 

[Garrett]

i must say this thread rocks, i might try and find a few myself

 

[stan394]

Found Seoul. Thanks to Famine

 

[wfooshee]

My contributions:

Nurburgring satellite image

Click in the red square to zoom in on Suzuka

My own work on Seoul, satellite image "stolen" from spaceimaging.com

 

[stan394]

^ Cool Stuff

Mapped Citta di Aria. Thanks to Wfooshee

 

[wfooshee]

Some more:

Fuji wide area, track is in circled area

Zoomed in on track

 

[Chris Criswell]

Cool maps.

R246 stands for Route 246 I believe...

 

[McLaren]

How'd you get those map images from Google!?

Everytime I try to leave the US, it says "Cannot provide image."
Please post a link to how you got to all of those. 👍

 

[stan394]

How'd you get those map images from Google!?

Everytime I try to leave the US, it says "Cannot provide image."
Please post a link to how you got to all of those. 👍

Sure I will try adding the link to the actual sattelite images.

Found Le Mans!!!

 

[McLaren]

Sweet. All you need now is to find the 'Ring.

 

[Joecool593]

Sweet. All you need now is to find the 'Ring.

Isn't that one of those "Original Courses" that are solely GT4 and not in real-life?

 

[stan394]

Isn't that one of those "Original Courses" that are solely GT4 and not in real-life?

NOOOOOOOO The 'Ring is real!

 

[McLaren]

I meant Nurburgring. I just like shortening it down to the 'Ring.

 

[UnlimitedZero]

Here's the 'Ring pics.

http://www.touringeurope.org/biker-tours/faq/images/nurburgring-nordschleife-circuit.jpg

www.bimmer.se/nurburgring/

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/xylon/nurburgring/plan%20et%20trac%E9/nurburgring%20decoupe.jpg

http://www.toxo.de/ring/nordschleife/nurburgring.gif

All links work

 

[SUROKIA]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=adenau+germany&ll=50.336008,6.945162&spn=0.062056,0.084629&t=k&hl=en
THE RING!!!!!!!!!!! this it the F1 frack and the long straight

 

[stan394]

^^^ Thanks! Updated OP with the 'Ring!

 

[jamesaevans]

Great thread, and lots of hard work put in so far.

I have been playing GT since the first version and never realised that the Tokyo track was real. Very interesting to see that it is real, especially the photo tour.

I have stayed in the water front hotel in Hong Kong a couple of years ago and remember walking along the riverfront foot paths that we now race along. I'm going back at the end of this year so will defiantly have a another look around this areas after spending some more time lapping this track.

 

[Zer0]

Seattle tour:
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4288927147

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[STINGER05]

Thank you and Congratulations on an excellent job for everyone who provided some of the great stuff in this thread!

 

[Oliver_Newton]

WOW!!! This thread is one of the best I've seen on this site in a long time. Keep up the great work everyone.

 

[dolande]

I saw a picture walkthrough of the Tokyo track thanks to gtp member msako (http://www.sotobori.com/route246b/image001.htm) It would be awesome to have similar walkthrough for all the GT4 tracks, especially the city tracks.

Thanks Zer0 👍

 

[stan394]

Seattle tour:
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4288927147

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VERY VERY nice!

 

[stan394]

I am guessing Costa di Amalfi should be somewhere here but I couldn't make sense out of it...

That is the town of Praiano just west of Amalfi

 

[torque998]

Do you know if the roads used for El Capitan are real? If so, try to find them.

 

[Flerbizky]

Seattle tour:
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4288927147

*You need register.

The weird looking buildig in the picture is nicknamed "The sinking ship" by the locals

 

[stan394]

Do you know if the roads used for El Capitan are real? If so, try to find them.

I live in California and I have just been to Yosemite not long ago. So I am pretty sure it was fake. The El Capitan rock is real though, but the track isn't.

 

[wfooshee]

I am guessing Costa di Amalfi should be somewhere here but I couldn't make sense out of it...

That is the town of Praiano just west of Amalfi

That course is supposed to be on the island of Capri, west of the area you've selected. The main straight is real scenery, but I don't think the course itself is real. If you watch a replay of a run on that course, the "back" side of the island is not very well modeled, and the size of the course isn't big enough to actually reach the other side of the island, in my opinion.

 

[torque998]

Drat. Oh well.