What WILL you make with a GPS enabled or very detailed track editor?

[APIOQM]

I'm going to be optimistic about this feature being able to track elevation. Its just too easy to implement. Regarding the scenery, hell these tracks could be floating roads in space with a sky-box and I would be more than satisfied.

 

[ae86fanatic]

I would try to create some mountain passes. If I had any by me. Otherwise, I hope to download some touge courses off of some people on the forums.

 

[ildd]

I'd be pretty limited living in suburban Houston, I guess I could try doing the Grand Prix of Houston...even though that's a solid 45 minute drive from where I live.

1.7 mile long track

 

[ProjectWHaT]

There's a great curvy road where I live. I would love to test it out with it

 

[Patrick]

I will definitely be trying to replicate Long Beach.

 

[gjeff12]

This legally answers the old question, "I wonder how fast I can get to that stoplight from here." lol, Or I can recreate the racetrackish route I did in HS!

For me there's a stretch of highway that's exactly a quarter mile between two roads I use a lot. I'm not sure if its good or bad but in my truck I can barely break the speed limit and then slow enough for the turn. I guess I could make it to 110kmh if I was lucky, the light was green, I had a tailwind, and any police cars had long outrun me so I didn't get my license suspended for excessive speeding.
I just know I can make the left turn lightas its turning yellow if I see it turn green from the other lights.

Anyways, on topic, if elevation was recorded, I'd have so many awesome tracks around my house. The roads aren't quite as amazing as some of the ones you guys have posted, but they'd be fun nonetheless. I live by a lake and for years I've been dreaming of the roads being shutdown for a day so people could rally (or whatever its called on pavement) around.

 

[jedixo]

i wonder how large an area we could map. there are tons of loops i've wanted to turn into race tracks where i live

 

[Chiochan]

There's this place about half an hour away from me:

Looks good to me.

You could hit up Watkins Glen also.

 

[Ranman20]

 

[frivoloushobby]

Right now I'm on a trip in Arizona and Utah.. Edgar to Clifton on Rt 191 in Arizona. The GPS feature would be pretty cool since there would be no real consequences when you get a corner wrong, unlike reality.

 

[F2X M3CSL]

I am going to recreate the Hockenheimring when I attend the DTM season opener in May or next years Formula 1 race

 

[CTznOfTime]

nice...

but uploaded in GT6, it's the equivalent of this:

 

[Inferno251]

If the GT6 course maker will permit, I will add the 'P' on the 'GT' track outline which is the new GT Arena and make the 'GTP Arena!'
I'll see if I have some time to draw it...

 

[eSZee]

There's a few places around here that have pretty drastic elevation changes but the tracks made from these roads would be very american. Lots of straights with a few sharp turns and a dip here and there.
That's assuming the GPS thingamabobber does indeed work as I think/hope it does.
I can only assume the app will NOT be available for windows phone 8.

 

[Conquerer]

This is the track I'd make. I drive on that curvy Mississauga Road every day to work and it's an awesome road also with some elevation changes. I've been thinking of this ever since I heard of the GPS addition and wondered how exactly I'd complete the track. Just looked it up on Google and made up the rest of the route through that neighbourhood and it looks pretty solid. It's even got a nice chicane in there, and an overall good flow. To give an idea, the elevation dips well down on that Dundas section and it starts the climb up towards the end of the curvy road section, and the neighbourhood section is much higher than the curvy road. There's actually a steep slope just to the left of the curvy road there, between it and the houses. I really hope elevation is a part of this GPS feature... It would make sense since you need to drive the course.

Anyway, the track map kind of reminds me of Albert Park, somewhat similar shape in a way. Also I'm only now noticing how that road is similar to the Suzuka Esses... Pretty much the exact same flow only a little looser, and it even curves all the way up as if it's on its way to Degner.

Edit: Haha, I just found a way to make it even longer and better. I'm going to have a lot of fun with this feature if it works anything like I hope it will.

 

[GTRacer22]

Has anyone thought of doing a four-leaf clover interstate on/off ramp yet? I can only imagine what that would look like!

 

[Johnnypenso]

Has anyone thought of doing a four-leaf clover interstate on/off ramp yet? I can only imagine what that would look like!

That's pure genius!!!👍👍

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Highway 18/Rim of the World highway from San Bernardino to Big Bear Lake.

 

[BanditRa101801]

There's this place about half an hour away from me:

Looks good to me.

You could hit up Watkins Glen also.

@Chiochan: FYI, that aerial picture is Watkins Glen

 

[TexasTyme214]

I would love if someone in Rome could redo this track for us:

 

[20B_4ME]

I would make a virtual version of the expressway that goes down the mountain from Petropolis to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and also going up the mountain the other way (which mostly goes via a separate section) from Rio de Janeiro to Petropolis. It's a beautiful twisty two lane road (two lane each way, two going up and two lanes going down), but some of the corners are so tight that lots of trucks crash and tip over. There are also a few short tunnels and a few nice overpasses and bridges.

Lots of photos (including truck crashes) here: https://www.google.com/search?q=subida de petropolis br&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=74V8UtOjHsL0kQWEtoCQAw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1282&bih=631

Petropolis to Rio:

Rio to Petropolis:

Why this? I was born in Petropolis and lived there until I was 16. My dad worked in Rio and it used to take us about an hour an a half to travel from Petropolis to Rio and vice versa. I wonder if we can do the entire trajectory, but even part of it would be amazing!

 

[Coenraad]

Tbh, i would then try to make tracks like, Road Atlanta, Sebring, Canadian Motorsportpark. Hell just all the ALMS and Grand-Am tracks.

 

[White & Nerdy]

Fishhook-Willow Road, from Hatcher Pass Lodge to the intersection with Wasilla-Fishhook Rd. 10.5 miles of epic. Would be interesting to run it without the killjoy 35mph speed limits. Offers a nice mix of slow and medium-speed corners, but the true character of the road would probably not be captured by a GPS editor. The surface itself works against you: cracks, patches, whoops, and maybe even random, large bumps in the middle of the road.

 

[rallymorten]

First of all I'd get my driver license. Then take a route through some of the stages used when the Danish Rally Championship was here (the second-best rally stages in DK). Then, if there's time and money for it, expand it to other close parts of the country, hoping for others to do the same in their local environments. The amount of nice rally roads packed in this relatively small country is in the upper half

 

[Grayfox]

I would to a point to point style map of a small country road I drive on for fun.

So I would want a GPS editor with an additional editing option so you can add things the GPS doesn't really add in correctly.

 

[DarthMosco]

too much hype for this feature, beyond this vague description we don't know how it actually works

This feature, available at a later stage through an update, will allow you to create your own custom tracks that can be driven in the game. Additionally, in another update we will add the possibility to generate a track by capturing the GPS coordinate data of a mobile app while you are driving that course. This GPS-generated tracks will be available in the game as playable content.

 

[jimipitbull]

Point to point, 243 km along the coast of Victoria. Obviously it would need to be done in stages.

Great Ocean Road, Victoria

If it has to be a circuit, here's a few options

Yes, I know I am dreaming.

 

[ed24]

I could do the Sydney Olympic Park Street Circuit, although it would be quite difficult to scan it by car when some parts of the track go down the wrong side of the road and down a bus road

More likely I'll do some local roads first.

 

[WCheffirs]

Would be fun with a go-kart or K-cars. I have the GPS already!

 

[Lord Protector]

I'll definitely record Slovakia Ring and also there's a cool "custom track" around my city so I'll record that too.