Determine the zoom scale to use for the Areas view We will also need blue painters tape to safely attach the transparencies to the frame of the computer screen.
We can use a Sharpie permanent marker and clear plastic sheets, or Snagit and a printer to transfer the street map to transparent film. The web page at contains the link to the high-resolution scan of the map in PDF format. Once you subscribe to the Los Angeles map in the Steam Workshop, the map appears in your map list in Cities: Skylines as “New Map”. In this example, we will transfer the Pacific Electric Railway map of the Los Angeles area from 1947 to the Los Angeles area map by macmcginty. I have used this fun, but very time consuming “analog” method before discovering the Image Overlay 2 mod described in Transfer streets to your city in Cities: Skylines using a PNG image fileĬities: Skylines is a great environment to build scale models of real cities.
